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Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture (Hardcover)
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Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture (Hardcover)
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This book looks at daily life during a pivotal decade in American
history: the 1960s. It covers the Vietnam War and the civil rights
movement as well as counterculture and protest movements. The 1960s
saw the assassination of a popular president; a confusing and
unpopular war that claimed the lives of thousands of American
combatants; the passage of a national civil rights act that
mandated equal rights across all races; countless violent exchanges
among Americans with polarized views on the Vietnam War and civil
rights; and through it all, the rise of a counterculture movement
that challenged long-established American social and cultural
traditions. Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture looks at the
1960s from the perspective of Americans who, despite their best
efforts to live normal lives, could not escape the tension,
conflict, and controversy that surrounded them. The war and the
violence associated with protests of it came at great personal cost
to many American families. This book looks those social and
cultural changes, examining such topics as the sexual revolution;
recreational drug culture; the roles of film, television, and
music; and more. Explains how political issues became personal
threats to millions of Americans in the 1960s Recounts the birth of
the 1960s civil rights movement in America Shows the roles that
1960s film, television, and music played in the lives of Americans
Provides an understanding of the sexual revolution that began in
the 1960s Offers readers with a firsthand look at the ideas that
spurred people to action in the 1960s through primary source
selections
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