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- Title: And the Crooked Places Made Straight
- Author : David Chalmers
- Release Date : January 07, 2012
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7236 KB
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âMarvelously comprehensive and superbly written. An exceptionally valuable overview of the 1960s, replete with astute interpretations and commentary.â âDavid J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David Chalmersâs widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long, losing war on poverty and the struggle between the media and the government over the war in Vietnam. He follows feminismâs âsecond waveâ and the emergence of the environmental, consumer, and citizen action movements. He also explores the worlds of rock, sex, and drugs, and the entwining of the youth culture, the counterculture, and the American marketplace.
This newly revised edition covers the conservative counter-revolution and cultural wars. It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Haydenâs idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrichâs 1994 âContract with Americaâ and Grover Norquistâs twenty-first century âTax Payerâs Protection Pledge.â
âWith its hint of passion and irony, the title of David Chalmersâs book aptly captures the complexities of his study. Beautifully written, it is more than a recitation of the actors and events of the 1960s. It helps us to make sense of the decade.â âDan T. Carter, author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South
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