America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History (History; 60)

Unlike other works America in the Sixties looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists liberals and conservatives providing readers with the opportunity to see this seminal decade more fully and richly than they could before. It includes the manifestos of both the Students for a Democratic Society and the Young Americans for Freedom the most prominent radical and conservative student groups of that era as well as the words of prominent liberals and moderate Republicans such as Hubert Humphrey and Dwight D. Eisenhower. In addition to selections by the well-known individuals of that era such as Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden it contains pieces by figures often associated with other times like the Reverend Billy Graham Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond. Seeking to immerse readers in the decades key issues in a balanced manner it includes President Johnsons General William Westmorelands and the AFL-CIOs defense of the Vietnam War as well as Dr. Benjamin Spocks and Paul Potters criticism of it. The book covers the civil rights movement Vietnam the counterculture and the womens movement. It looks at some of the 1960s most memorable moments from the Cuban missile crisis and President Kennedys assassination to the moon landing and the New York Mets World Series victory in 1969. A statistical appendix with data on the economy the cost of consumer goods trends in popular culture and important legal developments complements the documents.