In this Book
- Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Missouri Press
summary
This study examines how the multiple social, cultural, and political changes between John Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 and the end of American involvement in Vietnam in 1973 manifested themselves in the lives of preadolescent American children.
Because the preadolescent years are, according to the child development researchers, the most formative, Joel P. Rhodes focuses on the cohort born between 1956 and 1970 who have never been quantitatively defined as a generation, but whose preadolescent world was nonetheless quite distinct from that of the “baby boomers.” Rhodes examines how this group understood the historical forces of the 1960s as children, and how they made meaning of these forces based on their developmental age. He is concerned not only with the immediate imprint of the 1960s on their young lives, but with how their perspective on the era influenced them as adults.
Because the preadolescent years are, according to the child development researchers, the most formative, Joel P. Rhodes focuses on the cohort born between 1956 and 1970 who have never been quantitatively defined as a generation, but whose preadolescent world was nonetheless quite distinct from that of the “baby boomers.” Rhodes examines how this group understood the historical forces of the 1960s as children, and how they made meaning of these forces based on their developmental age. He is concerned not only with the immediate imprint of the 1960s on their young lives, but with how their perspective on the era influenced them as adults.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 2. John F. Kennedy
- pp. 17-44
- 3. Space Rockets and Cuban Missiles
- pp. 45-84
- 4. The Assassination
- pp. 85-106
- 5. LBJ and the Great Society
- pp. 107-142
- 6. The Southern Struggle for Civil Rights
- pp. 143-186
- 7. The Vietnam War
- pp. 187-228
- 8. Hippies
- pp. 229-256
- 9. Women’s Liberation
- pp. 257-284
- 10. Conclusions
- pp. 285-294
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 323-338
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826273857
Related ISBN(s)
9780826221278
MARC Record
OCLC
981463377
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-09
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017