The Shattering: America in the 1960s Boyle Kevin
The Shattering: America in the 1960s Boyle Kevin On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the American…
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The Shattering: America in the 1960s Boyle Kevin
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the American Dream. Assassinations, rioting, and the blowback of a "silent majority" mobilized by an emerging right, left a fragmented political landscape.Kevin Boyle's full-dimensioned history of the decade is authoritative and engrossing. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements.
The Vietnam war unfolds as misguided policy, high-stakes politics, and searing in-country experience. The civil rights movement emerges from the grassroots activism of Montgomery, through the tragic violence of Birmingham, to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign and a rising Black nationalism. Women's challenges of gender norms yield landmark
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