The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

David Farber and Beth Bailey

Paper, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11373-1
$30.50 / £18.00

July, 2001
Cloth, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11372-4
$80.50 / £47.50

"This book is a fine addition to any library's collection, so good that faculty may want their students to purchase a copy. If other volumes in the series are half so impressive, libraries may want the series on standing order." — Choice

"An accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the turbulent Sixties. Part narrative history and interpretation, part almanac, chronology, and glossary, the book offers an introspective yet entertaining investigation for those who remember the age as well as for those just being introduced to it." — Karl Helicher, Library Journal

"It’s hard to imagine a more useful multi-function library resource than this latest entry in the Columbia Guide series . . . everyone from 'the Greatest Generation'to that generation’s great-grandchildren can learn something here." — Booklist

"There are many books written about the United States during the 1960s; none are quite like this one.The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s is a multi-purpose book." — Jennifer Clark, Australasian Journal of American Studies

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Politics
• Reference

Series

• Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures

About the Author

David Farber is the author/editor of three books on the sixties including The Age of Great Dreams and Chicago ’68. A professor of history at the University of New Mexico, he has been described by Alan Brinkley as the leading scholar in the field. Beth Bailey is the author of three books, including Sex in the Heartland— described by Carolyn See in the Washington Post as "a treasury of useful information"—and From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. She is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

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