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245 14 a| The 60s experience :b| hard lessons about modern America /c| Edward P. Morgan.;

246 3 a| Sixties experience;

260 a| Philadelphia :b| Temple University Press,c| 1991.;

300 a| xxiv, 357 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bilbiographical references (p. [287]-336) and index.;

505 0 a| Foreword by Howard Zinn -- Chronology, 1960-1970 -- The sixties experience. Explaining the sixties : a movement perspective ; Hard lessons -- The struggle for racial justice : the sixties catalyst. The beginnings, 1953-1960 ; Gaining momentum, 1960-1961 ; The growing schism : rights versus power ; Black power ; Legacies of the civil rights struggle -- Political education : the new student left and the campus revolt -- The Vietnam War : a nation divided, a movement radicalized. The antiwar movement ; The evolution of American policy and opposition to it ; Nixon's war and the end of the sixties ; An antiwar legacy -- Retreating inward : the countercultural revolution. The roots and evolution of the counterculture ; Hallmarks of the counterculture ; The counterculture as transition -- New beginnings : feminism, ecology, and a revived left critique. The women's movement ; The feminist critique ; The ecology movement ; A revived left critique -- A new awakening? Lessons and legacies of the sixties. The "right turn" and sixties-bashing ; Toward a third path : a global pro-democracy movement ; The sixties democratic vision revisited.;

520 a| "[The author] explores the compelling democratic vision that grounded Sixties movements and traces its evolution through the concrete experiences of the civil rights and black power movements, the new student left and the campus revolt, Vietnam and the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. Using first-person material, narrative accounts, and evocative excerpts from popular culture, he brings alive the vibrant energy and intense feelings generated by movement experiences. He also traces the connection of the women's and ecology movements to the Sixties experience, outlining their contribution, and that of a "revitalized Left," to the enduring legacies of the 1960s."--Back cover.;

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The 60s experience : hard lessons about modern America / Edward P. Morgan.

Author/creator	Morgan, Edward P., 1945-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.
Description	xxiv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Social movements--United States. --History. --20th century. United States--History. --1961-1969. United States--Social conditions. --1960-1980.

Variant title	Sixties experience
Contents	Foreword by Howard Zinn -- Chronology, 1960-1970 -- The sixties experience. Explaining the sixties : a movement perspective ; Hard lessons -- The struggle for racial justice : the sixties catalyst. The beginnings, 1953-1960 ; Gaining momentum, 1960-1961 ; The growing schism : rights versus power ; Black power ; Legacies of the civil rights struggle -- Political education : the new student left and the campus revolt -- The Vietnam War : a nation divided, a movement radicalized. The antiwar movement ; The evolution of American policy and opposition to it ; Nixon's war and the end of the sixties ; An antiwar legacy -- Retreating inward : the countercultural revolution. The roots and evolution of the counterculture ; Hallmarks of the counterculture ; The counterculture as transition -- New beginnings : feminism, ecology, and a revived left critique. The women's movement ; The feminist critique ; The ecology movement ; A revived left critique -- A new awakening? Lessons and legacies of the sixties. The "right turn" and sixties-bashing ; Toward a third path : a global pro-democracy movement ; The sixties democratic vision revisited.
Abstract	"[The author] explores the compelling democratic vision that grounded Sixties movements and traces its evolution through the concrete experiences of the civil rights and black power movements, the new student left and the campus revolt, Vietnam and the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. Using first-person material, narrative accounts, and evocative excerpts from popular culture, he brings alive the vibrant energy and intense feelings generated by movement experiences. He also traces the connection of the women's and ecology movements to the Sixties experience, outlining their contribution, and that of a "revitalized Left," to the enduring legacies of the 1960s."--Back cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bilbiographical references (p. [287]-336) and index.
Other title	Sixties experience.
LCCN	90043517
ISBN	0877228051 (alk. paper)

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