The Times They Were A-Changin': 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn McElvaine Robert S.
An award-winning historian reexamines the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964--or…
Specifikacia The Times They Were A-Changin': 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn McElvaine Robert S.
An award-winning historian reexamines the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964--or rather, the long 1964, from JFK's assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965--was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of "American," with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement--a radical shift accompanied by a cultural revolution.The same month Bob Dylan released his iconic ballad "The Times They Are a-Changin'," January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty. Spurred by the civil rights movement and a generation pushing for change, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Immigration