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Rorabaugh, W. J.

 
9780521543835: Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties
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ISBN 10: 0521543835 ISBN 13: 9780521543835
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Sinopsis

This book explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was President. Kennedy's Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans. The 1962 missile crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. The civil rights movement gained momentum with student sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and crises in Mississippi and Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a spokesman for non-violent social change. The American family was undergoing rapid change. Betty Friedan began to launch the Women's Movement. The Beat authors Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg gained respectability and, at the same time, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan revived folk music. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol produced Pop Art, while Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey began to promote psychedelic drugs. The early Sixties was a period of marked political, social and cultural change which this book relates and discusses.

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W. J. Rorabaugh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521543835
ISBN 13 
9780521543835
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Número de páginas
342
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