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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive examination of how American youth changed the culture of the 1960s, looking at the civil rights movement, the hippie generation, feminism, and anti-war demonstrators.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
To understand how Boomers have changed America, think back to the 1950s but without the nostalgia. Women were kept at home, minorities were denied their dignity, homosexuality was a crime, and anyone who marched to a different drummer was labeled un-American and viewed as a threat. Today we live in a far more open, inclusive, tolerant, and equal America than at any other time in our history. And thatś because Baby Boomers, from the Sixties onward,...
3) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Journalist Steven Brill examines how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill shows us how America's core values -- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself -- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best...