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The shattering : America in the 1960s
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First edition.
"From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the AmericanDream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, rioting, and the blowback of a "silent majority" mobilized by an emerging right, left a fragmented political landscape. Kevin Boyle's full-dimensioned history of the decade is authoritative and engrossing. The civil rights movement emerges from the grassroots activism of Montgomery, through the tragic violence of Birmingham, tothe frustrations of King's Chicago campaign and a rising Black nationalism. The Vietnam war unfolds as misguided policy, high-stakes politics, and searing in-country experience. Women's challenges of gender norms yield landmark decisions on privacy rights, contraception, and abortion. With empathy its keynote, this definitive history of the 1960s recovers the humanity behind the decade's divisions"--
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- 18 of 18 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 18 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Ossining Public Library | 973.923 B (Text) Nonfiction |
31021153419998 |
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| Rye Free Reading Room | TIMES - 973.923 BOYLE (Text) Nonfiction |
31028153343722 |
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| Scarsdale Public Library | 973.923 B (Text) Nonfiction |
31029154458329 |
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| Somers Library | 973.923 B (Text) Nonfiction |
31031151969142 |
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| Warner Library | 973.923 BOYLE (Text) Nonfiction |
31033152105254 |
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| White Plains Public Library | 973.923 B (Text) Nonfiction |
31544101244879 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | 973.92 B (Text) Nonfiction |
31035613068591 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | 973.923 B (Text) Nonfiction |
31035162507189 |
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