Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord

by Myron A. Marty

Book Overview

Students, teachers, and interested readers can use this important resource to examine the evolution of the everyday lives of ordinary people in the United States from 1960 to 1990. The volatility of the civil rights movement; the impact of the baby boom generation; the influences of television, advertising, and other media; the emergence of environmental and consumer-protection movements; and the effects the Vietnam War and Watergate had on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313295549
• ISBN13: 9780313295546
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A well writen and thought out book about yesterday and today

Dr. Marty must have put in a lot of time and effort into this book. He discribes each century and the ideologies that the people believed in. He describes all the problems and benifits of each time period. He accomplished this through quotes; well broken up chapters and thorough anaylsis. At some points, the book becomes to thick with facts and very slow. It never lacked inspiration or serious effort. Dr. Marty's book is a well writen work that a lot of time and effort went into. If you are serious about history I would recomend that you read it.