Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties - Image 1

£30.16

Cambridge University Press Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties

Name: Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 26.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Social & Cultural

Price History & Forecast

Last 70 days • 70 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 70 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £30 (23 days, 32.9%)

Price range: £26 - £31

Price levels: 5 different prices over 70 days

Description

This book explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was President. Kennedy's Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans. The 1962 missile crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. The civil rights movement gained momentum with student sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and crises in Mississippi and Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a spokesman for non-violent social change. The American family was undergoing rapid change. Betty Friedan began to launch the Women's Movement. The Beat authors Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg gained respectability and, at the same time, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan revived folk music. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol produced Pop Art, while Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey began to promote psychedelic drugs. The early Sixties was a period of marked political, social and cultural change which this book relates and discusses.

Key Features

Used Book in Good Condition

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521816173
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 September 2002
Listed Since: 12 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge - Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties

The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade

Routledge Sixties at 40: Leaders and Activists Book

The Global 1960s: Convention, contest and counterculture (Decades in Global History)

The Global 1960s: Convention, contest and counterculture (Decades in Global History)

The Sixties

1968: The World Transformed (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Historical Dictionary of the 1960s

Iron Horse [Solid Red Dbl Vinyl]

The 1960s (Eyewitness History)

The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture

LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval

Routledge - 1968: Year of Media Decision - History Book

British Student Activism in the Long Sixties (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)

Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

In His Own Right – The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F Kennedy (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History)

Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer

America in the Sixties (America in the Twentieth Century)

Turning Points—Actual and Alternate Histories: America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s

Routledge British Student Activism in the Long Sixties Book

Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion and Utopia

The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building

Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse

The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building