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| Author | : W. J. Rorabaugh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2002-09-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521816175 |
Explores life in America in the early Sixties when Kennedy was President.
| Author | : W. J. Rorabaugh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this election to explain the operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, 'The Making of the President'.
| Author | : Henry Fairlie |
| Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
"For Americans life will be more difficult and more challenging in the 1960's than it has ever been in the past"--John F. Kennedy. For Americans in the 1970's, these words from John Kennedy's 1960 campaign have an eerily prophetic ring, since the past decade did indeed bring unprecedented difficulties and challenges to the American people. Henry Fairlie argues that these were a self-fulfilling prophecy, that the very rhetoric and style of the Kennedys were largely responsible for the unrest and disilussionment that marked the late 1960's. "One cannot blame the Kennedy's," writes Mr. Fairlie, "for the whole displacement of politics which took pace in the 1960's; and on cannot blame them only for any of it. But the fact remains that they had an unusual impact on the social imagination of the American people during the years in which they acted, beyond the meaning of anything which they did, and that the force of that impact was to persuade the people either that the limits of politics could be transcended, or that politics could transcend the limits of the commonplace world."
| Author | : Harris Wofford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : 9780822958086 |
When former public servant and college president Harris Wofford soundly defeated former governor and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh for the U.S. Senate in a 1991 special Pennsylvania election, it made national and international news, but few Pennsylvanians or Americans recognized his name. Yet Wofford had been a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy and was one of the founders of the Peace Corps. During the decade of struggle from Montgomery to Memphis, he was and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. With independent views of his own, Harris Wofford was witness from within the White House to the bright and the dark side of the Kennedy administration. Focusing on how the politics and ideas came together to shape critical decisions, Wofford's memoir captures the personal drama of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King as their characters were tested. Of Kennedys and Kings not only makes sense of the sixties, but gives us a glimpse into the issues closest to the heart of one of America's most interesting senators. Wofford's vivid recollections and reflections shed light on the sixties and on the dramatic domestic and international politics of the era. Of Kennedys and Kings provides a timely reminder of what can be accomplished with leaders who are, with all their human feelings, committed to public service and responsible political action.
| Author | : Jim F. Heath |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780608050270 |
The sixties began optimistically, with Americans full of hope and expectation, voting to support a new, young, charismatic leader who promised to "move America forward." Tragically, something went wrong. Instead of finding its Utopia, America became a country struggling desperately to escape its Armageddon. President Kennedy's New Frontier fell far short of its promise in tangible domestic legislation and his foreign policy decisions pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust, while President Johnson's dream of a Great Society foundered in the quicksand of the Vietnam war. This revealing history of the Kennedy-Johnson years begins with the presidential primaries of 1960 and concludes with Johnson's final weeks as a lame duck President. An expert and objective history of an exciting period -- its social, cultural, and economic facets as well as its political developments.
| Author | : Jim F. Heath |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780253202017 |
Discusses the decade of the Sixties in America, the administrations of two Democratic Presidents, Kennedy and Johnson, and the war in Vietnam.
| Author | : Lewis J. Paper |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Richard N. Goodwin |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-09-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781497676572 |
A political tour of the 1960s with Goodwin's memoirs of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Eugene McCarthy.
| Author | : J. Harvie Wilkinson III |
| Publisher | : Encounter Books |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2017-02-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1594038929 |
In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message. The 1960s inflicted enormous damage on our country; even at this very hour we see the decade’s imprint in so much of what we say and do. The chapters reveal the harm done to the true meaning of education, to our capacity for lasting personal commitments, to our respect for the rule of law, to our sense of rootedness and home, to our desire for service, to our capacity for national unity, to our need for the sustenance of faith. Judge Wilkinson does not seek to lecture but to share in the most personal sense what life was like in the 1960s, and to describe the influence of those frighteningly eventful years upon the present day. Judge Wilkinson acknowledges the good things accomplished by the Sixties and nourishes the belief that we can learn from that decade ways to build a better future. But he asks his own generation to recognize its youthful mistakes and pleads with future generations not to repeat them. The author’s voice is one of love and hope for America. But our national prospects depend on facing honestly the full magnitude of all we lost during one momentous decade and of all we must now recover.
| Author | : P. Scott Corbett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-04-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781738998432 |
Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
