And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s

by David M. Chalmers

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David Chalmers' widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a widening 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 feminism's "second wave" and the emergence...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801841747

ISBN13:9780801841743

Release Date:October 1991

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

20th Century Americas History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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