The Age of Great Dreams : America in The 1960s Paperback - 1994
by David Farber
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- Title The Age of Great Dreams : America in The 1960s
- Author David Farber
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY
- Date 1994
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0809015676I5N10
- ISBN 9780809015672 / 0809015676
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.16 x 0.78 in (22.81 x 15.65 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - 1961-1969
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93032266
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.92
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From the rear cover
In this absorbing new book, David Farber gives us the history of our collective and individual memories of the 1960s: the brilliant colors of revolt and rapture, of flames and raised fists, of napalm and tear gas, of people desperate to make history even as others fought fiercely to stop them. More than thirty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this book grounds our understanding of the terrible events of that era by linking them to our country's grand projects of previous decades: the forging of a national system of social provision in the New Deal; our new agenda as global superpower after World War II; the creation of the national security state; and the maturation of a national consumer-driven mass-mediated marketplace. Farber's account, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in the historical literature, deals in full not only with nation building in Vietnam, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Watts riot, and the War on Poverty, but with the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more.
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- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/1994, Page 111
- Library Journal, 04/01/1994, Page 115
- Publishers Weekly, 03/07/1994, Page 64