Stuck In The Sixties

Author : George Rising
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456804863
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuck In The Sixties written by George Rising and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s were a colorful, tumultuous age that transformed American society. Ever since the decade ended, Americans have debated the changes that it unleashed. While most liberals argue that the era’s eff ects were mainly positi ve and long overdue, conservati ves perceive the 1960s as a disastrous ti me that has left ruinous legacies for us. Stuck in the Sixti es analyzes conservati ves’ views about the 1960s era and its legacies by examining their discourse about such sixti es fi gures and movements as John F. Kennedy, Marti n Luther King, Jr., the civil-rights movement, the Warren Court, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, the anti war movement, the New Left , and the counterculture. The book reveals that, for a generati on, a focus on att acking and reversing the legacies of the 1960s has been essenti al to the conservati ve Republican agenda.

Author : William A. Grossfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462831443
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuck in the Sixties: the Ollie Richards Story written by William A. Grossfield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ollie Richards Story: Stuck in the Sixties takes place mainly in the 1960s at Mr. Grossfields college, S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz. It explores the pulse of those confusing and turbulent times and then speeds forward into the next few decades. The book is semi-autobiographical as Mr. Grossfield is viewed as an observer on the sidelines, as the world changes before him. It is a learning experience not only for Mr. Grossfield, but for the reader as well.

Author : Jim Cullen
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1682619923
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Class You Never Had written by Jim Cullen and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History teacher Kevin Lee is retiring from Seneca Falls High School, where he has worked for the past forty years. He decides to use the freedom of his pending exit to toss the state curriculum and teach the U.S. survey as the story of the alluring, inspiring, murderous concept we know as the American Dream—which, he understands, his students regard with justified, if instinctive, skepticism. Lee discusses the rise, fall, and legacy of the Dream with these smart, funny, and irreverent eleventh graders, in a narrative peppered with memos, email exchanges, text messages, student journalism, and other documents from beyond the walls of his classroom. The result is the best history class you never had. A chronological history of the United States, this compelling novel also offers a snapshot of American education, written by a veteran teacher who slices through the arid literature of pedagogy to vividly depict the life of the classroom. Finally, it offers a deeply affectionate and patriotic vision of American life—one fully aware of the nation’s limits and failures while honoring the longings so many of us have to believe in our country, even as we harbor deepening doubts about our nation.

Author : Howard Cruse
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781848568914
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuck Rubber Baby written by Howard Cruse and published by Titan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s American South a young gas station attendant named Toland Polk is rejected from the army draft for admitting 'homosexual tendencies' and falls in with a close-knit group of young locals yearning to break free from conformity through civil rights activism, folk music and attending gay-friendly nightclubs.

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Publisher : Weston Hall
ISBN 13 : 0981916023
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walk to Soul Ville written by and published by Weston Hall. This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard Steinhorn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429909234
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greater Generation written by Leonard Steinhorn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All they get credit for is knowing how to order a tall skim double latte. What really is the true legacy of the Boomers? Summoning the amazing sea changes they've made in American culture, this controversial book recasts the much-maligned Boomers as a Greater Generation with a lasting legacy of tolerance and equality for all. Farewell, Donna Reed: "For women, the Baby Boom era has been one of breathtaking change—in a single generation American women have effected one of the greatest social metamorphoses in recorded history. What women are able to do today would have been unimaginable four or five decades ago, at best the stuff of utopian fantasy or science fiction." Not Only Women: "The egalitarian norms of the Baby Boom have deeply changed men and will continue to do so for generations to come." Diversity as a Moral Value: For too long, America denied blacks, gays, and other minorities their dignity and rights, but in the Boomer era we have enlarged the melting pot to include those once scorned and excluded. Boomers have led a culture war "to upend the rigid social structure of the Fifties and challenge centuries of entrenched norms and attitudes about race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality." The Greening of America: Under Boomers, environmental protection has become a powerful new norm in American society. No longer do we tolerate toxic run-offs and progress at any cost. A Freer, More Open Society: Personal freedom, tolerance, openness, transparency, and equality—these are the values of the Baby Boom era, and we live them daily at home, work, school, and in our many relationships. The old ways—the prejudice, narrowmindedness, restrictive sex roles, smoke-filled rooms, double standards, rigid hierarchies—are going, going, gone thanks to Baby Boomers. The media have it wrong: You don't need to fight a war to be a great generation. America today is far more open, inclusive, and equal than at any time in our history, and Boomers are the foot soldiers who made it happen. The Greater Generation tells their remarkable story. "The Greater Generation is a timely, passionate defense of the Baby Boom generation. . . . Leonard Steinhorn reminds us of the essential liberal spirit that defined the Boomers and how they changed our country for the better. In doing so, he illuminates the critical issues that continue to challenge them and their children." —Joe Conason, bestselling author of Big Lies and The Hunting of the President "The Baby Boom generation changed the heart and soul of America. Leonard Steinhorn's The Greater Generation shows us how much better off we all are as a result." —Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class "Steinhorn has written a smart and inspirational book that will be a boost to all Boomers, and will show their children why Mom and Dad know best." —Iris Krasnow, author of Surrendering to Marriage "In contrast to their parents' idealized standing as the ‘greatest generation,' Boomers have been gamely diminished as the ‘worst generation.' And this book shouts ENOUGH!" —Brent Green, author of Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers

Author : Bill McKibben
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429921358
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fight Global Warming Now written by Bill McKibben and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world's greatest threat Hurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government's report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will be greater than the Great Depression and both world wars—combined. Bill McKibben, the author of the first major book on global warming, The End of Nature, warns that it's no longer time to debate global warming, it's time to fight it. Drawing on the experience of Step It Up, a national day of rallies held on April 14, 2007, McKibben and the Step It Up team of organizers provide the facts of what must change to save the climate and show how to build the fight in your community, church, or college. They describe how to launch online grassroots campaigns, generate persuasive political pressure, plan high-profile events that will draw media attention, and other effective actions. Fight Global Warming Now offers an essential blueprint for a mighty new movement against the most urgent challenge facing us today.

Author : Tom James
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595197043
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wheelchair Ponies written by Tom James and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the first collection of the best poems of tom james. known in the underground and alternative presses as "mister james," his poems may shock or offend some but he is really only a gentle bird with folded wings who speaks powerfully and with love for his generation...and for all of us.

Author : Steve Golin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496841492
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Who Invented the Sixties written by Steve Golin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there were many protests in the 1950s—against racial segregation, economic inequality, urban renewal, McCarthyism, and the nuclear buildup—the movements that took off in the early 1960s were qualitatively different. They were sustained, not momentary; they were national, not just local; they changed public opinion, rather than being ignored. Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow. In 1960, Ella Baker played the key role in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became an essential organization for students during the civil rights movement and the model for the antiwar and women’s movements. In 1961, Jane Jacobs published The Death and Life of Great American Cities, changing the shape of urban planning irrevocably. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, creating the modern environmental movement. And in 1963, Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, which sparked second-wave feminism and created lasting changes for women. Their four separate interventions helped, together, to end the 1950s and invent the 1960s. Women Who Invented the Sixties situates each of these four women in the 1950s—Baker’s early activism with the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Jacobs’s work with Architectural Forum and her growing involvement in neighborhood protest, Carson’s conservation efforts and publications, and Friedan’s work as a labor journalist and the discrimination she faced—before exploring their contributions to the 1960s and the movements they each helped shape.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771075464
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Love and Other Stories written by Peter Robinson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen of the very best mystery stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, including one brand new Inspector Banks story. Best known — and much admired — for his long-running and bestselling Inspector Banks series, Peter Robinson is also widely and highly praised by mystery mavens for his riveting short stories. Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the twelve stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves — these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is.