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Title:
Turbulent years, the 60s
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ISBN:
9780783555034
Publication Information:
Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1998
Physical Description:
192 p. : illustrations (some color).
Contents:
Winds of change -- Voices from a turbulent decade: seven who shaped the 60s -- A brief shining moment: America visits Camelot -- At war with Jim Crow: the fight for equal rights -- Big screen, little screen: movies and television in the 60s -- Bigger, better, and a lot richer: when sport became commerce -- A different kind of war: the tragedy of Vietnam -- The war at home: Vietnam divides the nation -- Making love, not war: the counterculture -- A revolution in music: sounds of the 60s -- The look of the 60s: doing your own thing -- The race to the moon: hitting a keyhole in the sky.
Summary:
Chronicles the decade with photographs and accompanying text on John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodstock, Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix.
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