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And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s (American Moment (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for And the Crooked Places Made StraightThis overview of the 1960s covers such topics as: the civil rights movement, the judicial revolution, the losing war on poverty, and the struggle between the media and the government over the Vietnam war. Also discussed are feminism's "second wave", and the emergence of environmental groups.
Full description- Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 16 May 1996
- Format: Paperback 260 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | History Of The Americas | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780801853340 ISBN 10: 0801853346
- Sales rank: 831,344
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Full description for And the Crooked Places Made Straight
David Chalmers' widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a widening challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long, losing war on poverty and the struggle between the media and the government over the war in Vietnam. He follows feminism's "second wave" and the emergence of the environmental, consumer, and citizen action movements. And he explores the worlds of rock, sex, and drugs, and the entwining of the youth culture, the counterculture, and the American marketplace. This newly revised edition carries the story into the angry 1990s, in which the shadow of Vietnam still hangs over national policy and the social ethic of the sixties is overshadowed by a conservative counterrevolution against taxes, social programs, and the powers of the national government.
