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Contents Foreword, John Robert Greene ix Preface xi 1. Comfort and Crisis The 1950s 1 2. “The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation” The Myths of John F. Kennedy 20 3. “We Shall Overcome” Civil Rights in the South, 1960–1965 40 4. “We’ll Have the Opportunity to Move Upward” The Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson 63 5. “As American as Cherry Pie” Civil Rights, 1965–1969 81 6. “Bodies upon the Gears” The New Left and the New Feminism 97 7. “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” Vietnam, 1960–1967 118 8. “What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear” Sixties Culture, Straight and Counter 137 VIII C O N T E N T S 9. The Limits of Power To Reform the Sixties 160 Index 183 ...

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