The Sixties

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Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger has been teaching American history for over forty years on both coasts. Born and largely educated in New York, he has lived in California, Virginia, and Washington State. He is married to Debi Unger and they have five children, now all safely past their college years. Professor Unger formerly taught at California State University at Long Beach, the University of California at Davis, and New York University. He is now professor emeritus at NYU. Professor Unger’s professional interests have ranged widely within American history. He has written on Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and on the 1960s. His first book, The Greenback Era, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Since then he has written The Movement: The New Left and (with Debi Unger) The Vulnerable Years, Turning Point: 1968, The Best of Intentions (about the Great Society), LBJ: A Life, The Guggenheims, A Family History. He and Debi Unger are working on a biography of General George C. Marshall.

Introduction	p. viii
The Old Era Ends	p. 1
Camelot	p. 2
The New Frontier	p. 4
Kennedy and the Economy	p. 6
Cold Warrior	p. 7
The Nuclear Threat	p. 8
The Space Race	p. 9
Crisis Points	p. 10
The Soviet Union Versus the United States	p. 11
Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 13
Vietnam: The Opening Guns	p. 16
Deeper Involvement	p. 21
Kennedy and Vietnam	p. 22
Kennedy and Civil Rights	p. 24
Death in Dallas	p. 27
The Great Society	p. 29
Kennedy Programs Enacted	p. 31
Election 1964	p. 32
The Eighty-Ninth Congress	p. 35
Health Insurance	p. 36
Aid to Education	p. 38
Johnson and Civil Rights	p. 39
The Environment	p. 43
The Cultural Environment	p. 45
Consumer Protection	p. 46
Retreat	p. 48
Economic Problems	p. 49
The Civil Rights Movement	p. 51
Nation of Islam	p. 52
Ghetto Uprisings	p. 54
Fallout	p. 55
The Black Panthers	p. 56
Backlash	p. 58
King Moves Left	p. 59
Assassination	p. 60
The Riots Following King's Assassination	p. 61
The Poor People's Campaign	p. 64
Congress Fails to Act	p. 66
Vietnam and its Opponents	p. 70
Land War in Asia	p. 73
Escalation	p. 74
The Antiwar Movement	p. 77
SDS Enters the Picture	p. 79
UC Berkeley Opposes the War	p. 79
Vietnam and the Draft	p. 80
The Political Challenge	p. 82
The War Drags On	p. 83
The Tet Offensive	p. 85
The Warren Court	p. 88
Civil Rights	p. 90
Free Speech and Sexual Freedom	p. 93
Reproductive Rights	p. 95
Fair Representation	p. 97
Defendants' Rights	p. 98
Separation of Church and State	p. 102
Evolution	p. 104
The Warren Legacy	p. 105
The New Left	p. 108
The "Old Left"	p. 109
Roots of a New Left	p. 111
The Student Rebellion Begins	p. 112
Campus Political Parties	p. 114
The Rise of SDS	p. 115
Port Huron	p. 115
Economic Research and Action Project	p. 117
Campus Revolt	p. 118
Free Speech Movement Victory	p. 120
The Big Bust	p. 121
Student Strike	p. 124
The University Capitulates	p. 127
Aftermath	p. 129
The Impact of the FSM	p. 131
The "New Working Class"	p. 132
The Columbia Revolt	p. 133
Columbia and the Intellectuals	p. 135
The Collapse of the Student Left	p. 137
The Counterculture	p. 140
New Left Versus Counterculture	p. 141
Abundance and the Counterculture	p. 143
The Beats	p. 144
Leary, Alpert, and LSD	p. 146
The Merry Pranksters	p. 150
Advent of the Hippies	p. 152
The Hippie Creed	p. 153
The Underground Press	p. 155
The Counterculture and the Arts	p. 157
Rock Music	p. 158
Theater	p. 160
Diggers	p. 162
The Haight	p. 164
The Summer of Love	p. 166
The East Village	p. 172
The Dynamic Duo	p. 174
The Decline of Hippiedom	p. 175
Intentional Communities	p. 176
Free Universities	p. 178
The Counterculture Spreads	p. 180
Liberation	p. 181
Ethnic Liberation	p. 182
The Native American Movement	p. 184
Women's Liberation	p. 187
The Second Wave	p. 188
Radical Feminism	p. 189
The Atlantic City Demonstration	p. 190
Consciousness Raising	p. 192
The Outer Reaches	p. 194
Gay Liberation	p. 195
Early Protective Responses	p. 196
Stonewall	p. 197
The Sexual Revolution	p. 198
The Pill	p. 200
Sex Freedom Centers	p. 201
Nixon's the One	p. 203
Post-Tet Vietnam	p. 204
Dump Johnson	p. 205
Nominations	p. 208
George Wallace and Backlash	p. 209
Tragedy in Los Angeles	p. 210
The Chicago Democratic Convention	p. 212
Yippies	p. 212
The Presidential Race	p. 216
Nixon and Dissenters	p. 218
Nixon and Domestic Policy	p. 220
The Space Race	p. 222
Nixon and Foreign Policy	p. 223
Détente	p. 224
Peace in Vietnam	p. 224
Peace Finally	p. 225
The New Left and Counterculture in the Seventies	p. 227
The End of Prosperity	p. 228
Name Index	p. 230
Subject Index	p. 234
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