The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592132003)

How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? "The World the Sixties Made, "the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. Together these essays demonstrate that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.

Author: Van Gosse
ISBN-10: 1592132006
ISBN-13: 9781592132003
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.10w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2004 pg. 96 - Strongly Recommended