By James Stuart Olson
ISBN-10: 0313306192
ISBN-13: 9780313306198
Today, americans glance again nostalgically on the Fifties, an period while tv and rock and roll revolutionized pop culture, and Vietnam, race riots, drug abuse, and protest routine have been nonetheless sooner or later. With houses within the suburbs, new cars, and the newest electric instruments, many american citizens believed they have been the main filthy rich humans in the world. but the period was once tainted through the phobia of thermonuclear warfare with the Soviet Union, deepening racial tensions, and discontent with inflexible roles for ladies and the calls for of company conformity. a feeling of uprising had started to brew in the back of the facade. It manifested itself in rock and roll, the budding civil rights stream, and the looks of a adolescence tradition, finally exploding within the 1960s.
Providing a finished evaluation, this booklet contains entries at the well-known humans, significant occasions, concerns, scandals, rules, pop culture, and lawsuits of the last decade that gave upward thrust to the tensions of the 1960s.
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