Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush

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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Framing the Frame 1 1. “The Sixties”: Defining an era 11 2. Blaming “the Sixties”: The Rise of Ronald Reagan 28 3. A Tale of Two Sixties: Reagan’s Use of JFK and LBJ 45 4. Reagan and the memory of the Vietnam War 70 5. Remembering Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement: George h. W. Bush’s 1960s 93 6. George h. W. Bush and the Great Society 113 7. Bill Clinton and the heroes of the 1960s: Using Liberal Icons for Conservative ends 131 8. Vietnam and “the Sixties” in the Clinton Presidency 158 9. The “Un-Sixties” Candidate: George W. Bush 179 10. Framing John Kerry: The 2004 Presidential Campaign and “the Sixties” 200 Conclusion: The Persistent Power of the 1960s 221 Appendix: Alphabetical List and Identifications of Individuals Interviewed 233 notes 241 Index 283 ...