Summary: In contrast with most histories of this period,
America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall
of Richard Nixon does not treat the 1960s as a single historical
moment or as successive waves of activism. Rather, it employs a
chronological narrative to identify three distinct phases during
which events of the era unfolded. The first began with the
cultural ferment of the 1950s and ended with the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. During the second phase, fr ...show moreom
1964-1968, the "uncivil" wars began in earnest: Americans
disagreed about new social and cultural mores, protests against
the Vietnam War increased in size and vehemence, and American
cities erupted in racial violence. From 1967 through 1968, all
of these forces combined to divide Americans more deeply than
they had been since the Civil War. In the third phase, Richard
Nixon promised to bring Americans together. However, a host of
new value and identity movements--environmentalists, consumer
advocates, feminists, gay, L