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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 |
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