The long sixties : from 1960 to Barack Obama

Hayden, Tom

The long sixties : from 1960 to Barack Obama / Tom Hayden - vii, 272 pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index.

Part I. The first Sixties, 1955-1965 Introduction : movements against Machiavellians Dawn The Port Huron vision of SDS New Left versus New Frontier From the Washington March to the assassination of JFK The Mississippi Freedom Democrats' challenge The Berkley Free Speech movement, 1964-1965 The counterculture, 1964-1965 Part II. The second Sixties, 1965-1975. America invading Vietnam, Vietnam invading America Toppling the Ivory Tower : the student strikes at Columbia and San Francisco State, 1968-1969 The Chicago Conspiracy Cambodia, Yale, and Kent State The Watergate coup and the Antiwar Movement Wounded Knee and the end of the Sixties Part III. The Sixties at fifty Che Guevara and the Sixties The underground in America The old revolutionaries of Vietnam Peace in Northern Ireland From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime Liberation theology Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation theology The spirituality of the counterculture Part IV. The Sixties in the Obama era A call to progressives for Obama, with Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher, Jr. Dreaming Obama in North Carolina : a story of race and inheritance Bobby and Barack Barack Obama between movements and Machiavellians Part V. A sixties timeline

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United States--History--1961-1969
United States--History--1969-
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980
United States--Social conditions--1980-

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