The 1960s Cultural Revolution: Facts and Fictions

by Joel P. Rhodes

Book Overview

This book uses evidence-based primary source analysis to provide students with the historical perspective necessary to think critically about the romantic memories, stubborn stereotypes, misperceptions, deliberate falsehoods, distorted myths, and old grudges that distort our popular perceptions of the 1960s.

Twenty-first century Americans routinely use the 1960s as a metaphor, a sort of convenient shorthand, for the cultural wars--that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440876290
• ISBN13: 9781440876295
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years