Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... America in the Sixties (America in the Twentieth Century)di John Greene
Nessuna etichetta Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Sandwiched between the placid fifties and the flamboyant seventies, the sixties, a decade of tumultuous change and stunning paradoxes, is often reduced to a series of slogans, symbols, and media images. In this book the author goes beyond the cliches and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. He sketches the well known players of the period, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan, bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. He argues that the civil rights movement began in 1955 following the death of Emmett Till; that many accomplishments credited to Kennedy were based upon myth, not historical fact, and that his presidency was far from successful; that each of the movements of the period, civil rights, students, antiwar, ethnic nationalism, were started by young intellectuals and eventually driven to failure by activists who had different goals in mind; and that the "counterculture", which has been glorified in today's media as a band of rock singing hippies, had its roots in some of the most provocative social thinking of the postwar period. He chronicles the decade in a thematic manner, devoting individual chapters to such subjects as the legacy of the fifties, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, the civil rights movements, and the war in Vietnam. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.92History and Geography North America United States 1901- Eisenhower Through Clinton AdministrationsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
This is not your typical dry, college textbook. Greene does not offer us an array of dates and dull facts to memorize. Nor does he feed us information we've been saturated with over the years. Instead, Greene offers a fresh look at perhaps the most meaningful decade of the twentieth century and he does so with a writing style that manages to entertain as well as educate.
** I was given the opportunity to read/review this book by the publisher, Syracuse University Pres, through NetGalley.com. ** ( )