A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History - Brossura

Cavallo, Dominick J.

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ISBN 10: 0312235011 ISBN 13: 9780312235017

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2001

Riassunto

Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white, and college educated. Perhaps none have been more maligned or misunderstood since. In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the '60s. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The book digs beyond the post-World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past. Cavallo shows how the sixties' most radical ideas and values were deeply etched in the American soul.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Dominick J. Cavallo is professor of history at Adelphi University. He lives in Garden City, New York.

Contenuti:

Introduction: Problems in Making Sense of the Sixties
PART I: THE SOURCES OF FERMENT IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES
Raising Rebels and the Cult of Security: The Ambiguous Forties and Fifties
New Bottles, Old Wine: An Archeology of Rebellion
PART II: THE SIXTIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
'Free Because It's Yours': The Diggers and the San Francisco Scene, 1964-1968
Rock and Work: Another Side of Sixties Music
The Politics of Autonomy and Community: Students for a Democratic Society, 1960-1965
SDS' Failed Quest for Community
Epilogue: The Sixties as a Fiction of the American Past

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312235011
• ISBN 13: 9780312235017
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 288