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  • Waging Peace

    A History of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

    by Mitchell K. Hall ...
    Series series Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
    Waging Peace dispels lingering myths of the frequently disregarded Vietnam antiwar movement as dominated by a subversive collection of political radicals and countercultural rebels. This comprehensive history defines a broad movement built around a core of liberal and mainstream activists who challenged what they saw as a misguided and immoral national policy. Facing ongoing resistance from the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Emergence of Rock and Roll

    Music and the Rise of American Youth Culture

    by Mitchell K. Hall ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    Rock and roll music evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, as a combination of African American blues, country, pop, and gospel music produced a new musical genre. Even as it captured the ears of the nation, rock and roll was the subject of controversy and contention. The music intertwined with the social, political, and economic changes reshaping America and contributed to ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Crossroads

    American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation

    by Mitchell K. Hall ...
    Series series Vietnam: America in the War Years
    The Vietnam War affected nearly every aspect of American life. It altered the economy, challenged citizens to reassess their values, and played a key roll in the downfall of two presidential administrations. However, most people's attention remained focused on their daily lives—including the latest movie, the baseball score, and the new group on American Bandstand. But those elements were not ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Vietnam War Era

    People and Perspectives

    Edited by Mitchell K. Hall ...
    Series series Perspectives in American Social History
    An insightful look into the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups, both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam.This collection of essays by highly respected social historians looks at the Vietnam War era through the eyes of the ordinary citizens caught up in those tumultuous times. Focusing on the period between 1961 and 1975—from the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Opposition to War

    An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements [2 volumes]

    Edited by Mitchell K. Hall ...
    How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present.Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace, the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era

    by Mitchell K. Hall ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    The presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford encompassed some of the most turbulent and significant years of the 20th century. Nixon was elected near the end of a decade characterized by struggles for civil rights, years of war in Vietnam, and widespread cultural rebellion. Although he promised during his campaign to bring the country together, Nixon's administration was more ... Read more

    $123.19 USD

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  • The Twentieth Century

    A People's History

    by Howard Zinn ...
    “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book ReviewContaining just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

    The United States, 1945-1974

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Shattering

    America in the 1960s

    by Kevin Boyle ...
    From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still.On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • The Age of Great Dreams

    America in the 1960s

    by David Farber ...
    Series series American Century
    In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order

    1964-1980

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan’s ascent to the White House. Drawing on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War.Hayward captures an America at war with itself—and ... Read more

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  • The Eve of Destruction

    How 1965 Transformed America

    by James T. Patterson ...
    At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD