What began at colleges in the sixties as a rejection of parental authority and the Vietnam War rapidly evolved into a social movement, one with lasting influences in diverse areas of American life. In this powerful narrative analysis of the sixties revolution, Kenneth Heineman explores the ideas that were at the root of student protest and shows how campus unrest polarized American politics, dividing the nation along class and cultural lines. As anti-Communist and Great Society Democrats lost control of the Vietnam War and the unrest in America's inner cities, Students for a Democratic...

A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series."

Many Americans commonly associate evangelical Protestants with the scoldings of the religious right and solicitations of money by televangelists. Whether or not these associations are particularly flattering, it is true that a concern for preserving a moral social order as well as an unrelenting desire to make new converts are traits that have defined evangelicalism throughout American history. In this cogent account, D. G. Hart unpacks evangelicalism s current reputation by tracing its development over the course of the twentieth century. He shows how evangelicals entered the century as full...

Following on her history of the women's movement in America that took the story to 1876, Jean Matthews's new book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period of declining numbers and campaign failures to its final victory in the Nineteenth Amendment that brought women the vote. Ms. Matthews's engaging narrative recaptures the personalities and ideas that characterized the movement in these years. She draws deft portraits and analyzes the intellectual currents--in politics, the economy, sexuality, and social thought--that...