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The Shattering - America in the 1960s (Hardcover)
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The Shattering - America in the 1960s (Hardcover)
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On 4 July 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago
neighbourhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision
of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following
decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by
powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations,
rioting and the blowback of a "silent majority" mobilised by an
emerging right, left a fragmented political landscape. Kevin
Boyle's full-dimensioned history of the decade is authoritative and
engrossing. The civil rights movement emerges from the grassroots
activism of Montgomery, through the tragic violence of Birmingham,
to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign and a rising Black
nationalism. The Vietnam war unfolds as misguided policy,
high-stakes politics and searing in-country experience. Women's
challenges of gender norms yield landmark decisions on privacy
rights, contraception and abortion. With empathy its keynote, this
definitive history of the 1960s recovers the humanity behind the
decade's divisions.
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