Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974

"A vivid and masterful account of the terrible discord and violence of those years."-C. Vann Woodward

For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world.

These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history, rich in incident - the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the antiwar crusa...