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David Chalmers' widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long, losing war on poverty and the struggle between the media and the government over the war in Vietnam. He follows feminism's "second wave" and the emergence of the environmental, consumer, and citizen action movements. He also explores the worlds of rock, sex, and drugs, and the entwining of the youth culture, the counterculture, and the American marketplace. This newly revised edition covers the conservative counter-revolution and cultural wars. It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden's idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America" and Grover Norquist's twenty-first century "Tax Payer's Protection Pledge."

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: And the Crooked Places Made Straight
• Subtitle: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s
• Author: David Chalmers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781421408224
• ISBN: 1421408228
• ID: 04791758
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 328 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2013

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