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

Part 1: The American Sixties: A Brief History

John Kennedy and the Promise of Leadership

The Civil Rights Revolution

The Great Society

The Vietnam War

Polarization

Sixties Culture

Part 2: Debating the Sixties

The Upheaval of Jim Crow: African Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the 1960s, by Beth Tompkins Bates

The New Left: Democratic Reformers or Left-Wing Revolutionaries?, by Doug Rossinow

Losing Ground? The Great Society in Historical Perspective, by Edward Berkowitz

Urban Uprisings: Riots or Rebellions?, by Heather Ann Thompson

Explaining the Tragedy of Vietnam, by Richard H. Innerman

The Women's Movement: Liberation for Whom?, by Beth Bailey

Debating the Counterculture: Ecstasy and Anxiety over the Hip Alternative, by Michael Wm. Doyle

Political Conservatism in the Sixties: Silent Majority or White Backlash?, by Jeff Roche

The Sixties Legacy: "The Destructive Generation" or "Years of Hope"?, by David Farber

Part 3: The Sixties A to Z

Part 4: Short Topical Essays

Part 5: Special Sections

Part 6: Chronology

Part 7: Annotated Bibliography

Related Subjects

• American History
• 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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