America in the sixties - right, left, and center Book

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The 1950s: Happy Days and their Discontents	7
1.1	"People's Capitalism - What Makes It Work for You?"	8
1.2	People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character	9
1.3	"A Special Double Issue on the Good Life"	11
1.4	"Want Ads"	12
1.5	"Commencement Address"	15
1.6	"Press Conference on Sputnik and Little Rock"	17
1.7	"The Kitchen Debate"	19
1.8	"Presidential Debate: Opening Remarks"	23
1.9	"Fixed Entertainment ... Inter-racial Style"	26
1.10	"How Captain Hanrahan Made 'Howl' a Best-Seller"	28
1.11	"The National Purpose: Moral and Spiritual Cancer Found in Stress on Personal Comfort"	34
Ch. 2	The End of American Innocence	39
2.1	"From a Lunch-Counter Stool"	40
2.2	"Letter from a Mississippi Jail Cell"	42
2.3	"Port Huron Statement"	44
2.4	"The Sharon Statement"	46
2.5	"Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities"	47
2.6	"Testimony before the Ribicoff Committee"	53
2.7	"Address to the Nation on the Missile Crisis"	57
2.8	Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy	61
2.9	"Address to Joint Session of the House and Senate"	68
Ch. 3	The Black Freedom Struggle	73
3.1	"Letter from a Birmingham City Jail"	74
3.2	"Address to Congress"	78
3.3	"Inaugural Address"	82
3.4	"Testimony before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention"	85
3.5	"Address to a Meeting in New York"	87
3.6	"Ten Point Program and Party Platform"	90
3.7	"Speech in Cambridge, Maryland"	92
3.8	National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) Report	96
3.9	"Statement at Conference with Civil Rights and Community Leaders"	97
3.10	"Remarks on the Philadelphia Plan"	101
Ch. 4	The Great Society and its Critics	105
4.1	"Commencement Address - The Great Society"	106
4.2	"Testimony on Medicare"	109
4.3	"Speech on the First Anniversary of the War on Poverty"	113
4.4	"Televised Address - A Time for Choosing"	117
4.5	Engel v. Vitale	123
4.6	"Address on the Supreme Court Decision on Prayer in the Public Schools,"	127
4.7	"An End to History"	131
Ch. 5	Vietnam	135
5.1	"The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution"	136
5.2	"Address at Johns Hopkins University - We Have Promises to Keep"	137
5.3	"We Must Name the System"	139
5.4	"The Whole Thing Was a Lie!"	144
5.5	"A Sick Society"	148
5.6	"Support of Viet Nam Policy"	152
5.7	"SDS Borders on Treason"	157
5.8	"Address to Joint Session of Congress"	158
5.9	"Who, What, When, Where, and Why: Report from Vietnam"	162
5.10	"His Last Message: A Call to Peace"	166
Ch. 6	American Culture at a Crossroads	167
6.1	"Show by the Beatles Is a Scream," "Rally Provides 8,000 Answers to Beatle Cries"	168
6.2	The Playboy Philosophy	170
6.3	Sex and the Single Girl	173
6.4	"Linda's Crusade"	177
6.5	"A Gathering of the Tribes" and "The Houseboat Summit"	179
6.6	Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution	183
6.7	"Nobody Knows My Name"	187
6.8	"Remarks on John Wayne, The Green Berets, and Hair"	193
Ch. 7	Women's Liberation and Other Movements	197
7.1	The Feminine Mystique	198
7.2	"Statement of Purpose"	202
7.3	"A King of Memo ... to a Number of Other Women in the Peace and Freedom Movements"	204
7.4	"No More Miss America!"	206
7.5	"Preface to New Edition," Our Bodies, Ourselves	208
7.6	"A Gay Manifesto"	213
7.7	"Letter from Delano"	218
7.8	"What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?"	221
Ch. 8	Can the Center Hold?	229
8.1	"Speech - On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr."	230
8.2	"Two, Three, Many Columbias"	231
8.3	"You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows"	233
8.4	"Who Ripped Off the Park?"	239
8.5	"Rebellion Road Is Not the Oldsters' Road"	243
8.6	"Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention"	245
8.7	"Remarks to a Special Session of Congress"	252
8.8	Joy in Mudville	255
Ch. 9	Looking Backward	257
9.1	"Epilogue"	257
9.2	"Lefties for Reagan"	262
9.3	"The Sixties Are Dead: Long Live the Nineties"	266
9.4	"The Marines of '64"	270
9.5	"Congress Debates Designating Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a Legal Public Holiday"	272
9.6	"Levittown Memories"	277
9.7	"Woodstock Memories"	279
App	The 1960s: A Statistical Profile	283
Table I	The Economy	284
Table II	Federal Expenditures	285
Table III	Cost of Selected Goods and Services	286
Table IV	Vital Statistics	287
Table V	Presidential Elections	288
Table VI	Party Strength in Congress	289
Table VII	Justices of the Supreme Court	290
Table VIII	Major Decisions of the Warren Court	291
Table IX	Major Legislation Enacted During the 1960s	292
Table X	Entertainment and Culture	293
Table XI	Polls and People	296
Table XII	Presidential Approval Rating	297
	Suggested Readings	299
	Index	305