Historical Dictionary of the 1960s

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James S. Olson

Associate Editor: Samuel Freeman

Book Code: GR9271

ISBN: 0-313-29271-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29271-2

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560 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/1999

List Price: $138.95 (UK Sterling Price: £80.00)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

History » American History -- 1946 to Present

Reviews:

...an excellent dictionary covering the turbulent 1960s.
—Library Journal
This work will be useful for public or academic libraries needing to enhance their Kennedy presidency and assassination holdings.
—ARBA
...recommended for high-school, academic, and public libraries. Readable for either the person who lived through or was born after [this] period, Historical Dictionary of the 1960s...will enlighten, inform, and lead to a clearer assessment of this period of identity shift for the U.S., its people, and its culture.
—Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

Description: Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When JFK became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home cast doubt on whether the U.S. was really the "land of the free and the home of the brave." This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade--at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military, social, cultural, religious, economic, and diplomatic topics that made the 1960s a unique decade in U.S. history.

Table of Contents:

Preface
The Dictionary
Appendix: Chronology of the 1960s
Selected Bibliography of the 1960s
Index

LC Card Number: 97-2231

LCC Class: E841057

Dewey Class: 973


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