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The Shattering: America in the 1960s
By Kevin Boyle
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By Kevin Boyle
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From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still.
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social violence, and...