The Movement and The Sixties
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It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Black Power, the Chicago Convention, hippies, Brown Power, and Women's Liberation--The Movement--in an era that became known as The Sixties. Why did millions of Americans become activists; why did they take to the streets?These are questions Terry Anderson explores in The Movement and The Sixties , a searching history of the social activism that defined a generation of young Americans and that called into question the very nature of "America." Drawing on interviews, "underground" manuscripts collected at campuses and archives throughout the nation, and many popular accounts, Anderson begins with Greensboro and reveals how one event built upon another and exploded into the kaleidoscope of activism by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during and after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation. The parades of protesters, along with schocking events--from the Kennedy assassination to My Lai--encouraged other citizens to question their nation. Was America racist, imperialist, sexist?
Unlike other books on this tumultuous decade, The Movement and The Sixties is neither a personal memoir, nor a treatise on New Left ideology, nor a chronicle of the so-called leaders of the movement. Instead, it is a national history, a compelling and fascinating account of a defining era that remains a significant part of our lives today.
Reviews
"Should be the standard for years to come."--Kirkus Reviews
"A marvelous tour de force."--Mary King, author of Freedom Song
"Anderson has done the nearly impossible, giving us historical and intellectual synthesis."--The Seattle Times
"Eminently readable, fine presentation of its announced subject, 'the Movement.'"--J.M. Bordelon, Houston Baptist University
"This is a nice, balanced presentation of a confusion of often contradictory movements which characterized the decade of the 1960s. In any consideration of a time period it is always difficult to measure individual movements as a part of that time. Anderson does an excellent job in this regard, stressing not only movements, but interrelationships. The bibliography is most useful. All in all, this book should find wide readership and classroom use."--Gerald Schnabel, Bemidji State University
"Excellent synthesis of a very complex two decades. Anderson covers all dimensions of this rapidly shifting series of forces and counter-forces in a fair and vivid manner."--Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College
"Very exciting, fast-paced, well-written, broadly cast text. I believe this text will interest and keep the attention of readers who perhaps were not yet born during its time frame."--Robin Lorentzen, Albertson College
Product Details
544 pages; 32 halftones; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-510457-8ISBN10: 0-19-510457-9About the Author(s)
Terry Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University, and also has taught in Malaysia, Japan, and has received a Fulbright to China. He has written many articles on the 1960s and on the Vietnam War, and is the author of The United States, Great Britain and the Cold War, 1944-1947, and the co-author of A Flying Tiger's Diary (with fighter pilot Charles Bond, Jr.).
