| This is America?: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Monhollon, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312293291 ISBN-13: 9780312293291 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: Communities across America were thrown into upheaval during the 1960s, when thousands of young people began to publicly question the status quo. Grassroots social movements sprung up on hundreds of college campuses and often spread to surrounding towns, where participants debated race, the role of government, Vietnam, feminism, the cold war, and other issues of the day. Yet this dynamic did not occur in a vacuum: Americans that supported the status quo came together to oppose the activists, and joined a national debate on the meaning of citizenship and patriotism. Rusty L. Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas. He reveals how Americans from a range of ideological and political perspectives responded to and tried to resolve political and social conflict in the 1960s. By focusing on a single community, Monhollon vividly demonstrates that the war at home reached deep into the nation's core, and affected the lives of ordinary citizens on a daily basis. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 978.165 |
| LCCN: 2001058018 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.84" W x 8.58" (1.06 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Heartland - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Locality - Lawrence, Kansas - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Communities across America were thrown into upheaval during the 1960s, when thousands of young people began to publicly question the status quo, particularly in terms of race, youth, and gender. As grassroots social movements sprung up on college campuses (and often spread to surrounding towns) where participants debated race, the role of government, Vietnam, feminism, the Cold War, and other issues of the day, Americans that supported the status quo joined forces to oppose the activists and lend their own voices to the debate on the meaning of citizenship and patriotism. Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas, and reveals how Americans from a range of ideological and political perspectives responded to and tried to resolve political and social conflict in the 1960s. |