Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties

Informationen zum Autor W. J. Rorabaugh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle. Klappentext This book explores life in America during that brief promising period in the early 1960s! when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president. Kennedy's optimism and charm helped to give promise to a time that drastically shaped America's future. Zusammenfassung Explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was president. The early Sixties was a period of marked political! social and cultural change. The old was swept away! and the country that the United States became began to be born. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Kennedy; 2. The cold war; 3. Civil rights; 4. Families; 5. Cosmologies; 6. Dallas; Conclusion.

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• Authors: W. J. Rorabaugh, W. J. (University of Washington) Rorabaugh, W.J. Rorabaugh, William J. Rorabaugh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9780521816175
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81617-5
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries