The Decade That Divides Us: America in the 1960s

By Leonard Steinhorn

The Sixties. No other decade has had such an impact on who we are now and how we lead our lives. From Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and rock 'n' roll to the sexual revolution, feminism, campus unrest, and the "silent majority" backlash, this book demonstrates how the culture wars and political battles of the 1960s shaped America today.

The 1960s was a decade when Americans were whipsawed by the duelling emotions of violence and hope, resistance and change, idealism and despair, liberation and assassination, promise and grief. It is a decade whose images remain vivid and compelling to this day: peace marches, hippies, body bags, Freedom Summer, Woodstock, napalm, Black Power, November 22, and Martin Luther King evoking our nation's most powerful ideals. The Decade That Divides Us journeys through these years of turbulence and change - and demonstrates how these conflicts continue to reverberate in our culture and politics today.

For students, historians, journalists, and anyone trying to make sense of the present, this book illuminates an essential truth: to understand America now, we must understand the Sixties.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032745932
• ISBN13: 9781032745930
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages