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And the Crooked Places Made Straight:

The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s 2ed Updated
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David Chalmers's 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. And he 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 Haydens idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrichs 1994 'Contract with America' and Grover Norquists twenty-first century 'Tax Payers Protection Pledge.'

Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Coming Out of the 1950s
2. Marching in the Streets
3. Through the Halls of Government
4. Poverty and Progress
5. Revolt on the Campus
6. The Counterculture
7. President's War, Media War
8. The Antiwar Movement
9. The End of Optimism
10. Toward the Liberation of Women
11. Legacies and Continuities
Select Further Readings
Index

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