The Sixties in America: History, Politics, and Protest

by Michael J. Heale

No other decade of the twentieth century has acquired the mythological status of the 1960s. For the United States this was the decade of the Camelot presidency of John F. Kennedy and the ruined presidency of Lyndon Johnson, of the great civil rights March on Washington and the assassination of Martin Luther King. It was the decade of the escalating war in Vietnam and the thrusting youth and peace movements, of urban riots and violent confrontations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853312053
• ISBN13: 9781853312052
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.7"