{"product_id":"the-times-they-were-a-changin-robert-s-mcelvaine-9781950994106","title":"The Times They Were A-Changin': 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics--for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964--or rather, the long 1964, from JFK's assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965--was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of \"American,\" with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was a radical shift accompanied by a cultural revolution. The same month Bob Dylan released his iconic ballad \"The Times They Are a-Changin',\" January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty. Spurred by the civil rights movement and a generation pushing for change, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Immigration and Nationality Act were passed during this period. This was a time of competing definitions of freedom. Freedom from racism, freedom from poverty. White youth sought freedoms they associated with black culture, captured imperfectly in the phrase \"sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.\" Along with freedom from racist oppression, black Americans sought the opportunities associated with the white middle class: \"white freedom.\" Women challenged rigid gender roles. And in response to these freedoms, the changing mores, and youth culture, the contrary impulse found political expression in such figures as Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, proponents of what was presented as freedom from government interference. Meanwhile, a nonevent in the Tonkin Gulf would accelerate the nation's plunge into the Vietnam tragedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn narrating 1964's moment of reckoning, when American identity began to be reimagined, McElvaine ties those past battles to their legacy today. Throughout, he captures the changing consciousness of the period through its vibrant music, film, literature, and personalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert S. McElvaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950994104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950994106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 1.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/06\/2022 pg. 1","brand":"Robert S. McElvaine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995981578495,"sku":"9781950994106","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6994d10f-7773-4ac9-8e23-ce974ab11b03.jpg?v=1683339010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-times-they-were-a-changin-robert-s-mcelvaine-9781950994106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}