Turning Points--Actual and Alternate Histories - America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s

Offering a unique approach to studying one of the most eventful eras in American history, this volume looks at a dozen key events of the 1960s and 1970s and considers the possible paths history might have taken if the outcomes had been different. This volume in the Turning Points-Actual and Alternative Histories series looks at a tumultuous recent era in American history, a time when pivotal, often tragic, world-changing events seemed to be happening at an alarming rate. America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s looks at 12 significant events, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, from the student killings at Kent State to Richard Nixon''s resignation. Drawing on the concepts of alternative history, the book portrays each event as it happened, then considers some plausible alternative scenarios of how history would have been different if these events had not occurred. It is a uniquely thought provoking way of exploring an explosive era, whose aftershocks continue to shape the American experience today.>

About the author

Rodney P. Carlisle, PhD, is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and vice president of History Associates Incorporated, Rockville, MD.

J. Geoffrey Golson is president and editor of Golson Books, Ltd., Croton-on-Hudson, NY.

Product details

• Authors: Rodney P Carlisle, Rodney P. (EDT)/ Golson Carlisle, Rodney P. Golson Carlisle, CARLISLE RODNEY P GOLSON J GEO, J Geoffrey Golson
• Assisted by: Rodney Carlisle (Editor), Rodney P. Carlisle (Editor), Carlisle Rodney P. (Editor), J. Golson (Editor), J. Geoffrey Golson (Editor), Golson J. Geoffrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9781851098835
• ISBN: 978-1-85109-883-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Turning Points: Actual and Alt; Turning Points: Actual and Alt; Turning Points-Actual and Alternate Histories; Turning Points—Actual and Alternate Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; American History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1960 to c 1970, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980