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...
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 lastin...