Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties
- ISBN-10
- 0521816173
- ISBN-13
- 9780521816175
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-09-16
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- W. J. Rorabaugh
Description
A thought-provoking combination of political, cultural, and social history paints a vivid portrait of American life in the early sixties, when John F. Kennedy was president, revisiting the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Movement, the Beat Generation, folk music, and pop art. (History)
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