Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
Published on 11. August 2009
247 pages
978-1-59698-120-1 (ISBN)
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Get ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in historythe 1960s.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Part I - THE SOCIAL SIXTIES
- Chapter One - THE STUDENT RADICALS: WHO THEY WERE AND WHICH GIRLS THEY WANTED
- Leaders of the New Left: Marx would be proud
- The Berkeley free speech movement: Free speech for us
- Students for a Democratic Society: From radicalism to terrorism
- Kent State: The untold story
- The radicals go to grad school and take over the faculty
- The decline and fall of the American university
- Chapter Two - THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION AND THE START OF FEMINISM: WHERE'D MOM AND ...
- The advent of feminism
- The legacy of feminism
- Chapter Three - CIVIL RIGHTS AND UNCIVIL WRONGS: FROM FREEDOM RIDES TO "BURN, ...
- From anti-discrimination to "positive discrimination"
- Jumping on the bandwagon
- Who was Malcolm X?
- Who were the Black Panthers?
- What caused the 1960s urban riots?
- Cesar Chavez: Labor organizer and best buddy of the INS
- Chapter Four - THE INTELLECTUALS: DID THEY HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT?
- The treason of the clerks, part I: It's a mad, mad world
- The treason of the clerks, part II: There's no villain like the corporate villain
- Part II - THE CULTURAL SIXTIES
- Chapter Five - ROCK 'N' ROLL: SOUNDTRACK TO THE SIXTIES?
- What is rock 'n' roll?
- "If you go chasing rabbits . . ."
- Bob Dylan vs. Merle Haggard
- Paul McCartney and George Martin
- The Rolling Stones
- The Altamont debacle
- Chapter Six - MOVIES AND TV: NOT GREAT, BUT NOT YET DECADENT
- Hurray for Hollywood-sort of
- Foreign films: Trying to make Marxism interesting
- Chapter Seven - MODS, MINIS, WIDE TIES, AND BROOKS BROTHERS: THE BEST OF ...
- Jackie and Audrey: Adult fashions
- Haight-Ashbury: Where good fashion went to die
- Chapter Eight - TO THE MOON, BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
- The politics of outer space
- One giant boondoggle for mankind
- The moon landings did not lead to countless new inventions
- Part III - THE POLITICAL SIXTIES
- Chapter Nine - THE UNWARRANTED COURT: EARL WARREN AND HIS BATTLE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION
- Who was Earl Warren?
- Power grab: The Warren Court in action
- Power corrupts
- Chapter Ten - CAMELOT AS IT REALLY WAS
- With a little help from his friends
- Viva la resistance-to Communism
- Peace through superior firepower
- Kennedy's tax cuts and the roller-coaster 1960s economy
- Sickness in secret
- Chapter Eleven - JOHNSON'S WAR ON POVERTY-AND COMMON SENSE
- Just saying "yes"
- The great cost of the Great Society
- Chapter Twelve - THE VIETNAM WAR: SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY
- Who were the real heroes in Vietnam?
- A defeated enemy is handed victory: The Tet Offensive
- Why did the South lose?
- Cambodian nightmare
- Street theater: The 1968 Chicago riots
- Chapter Thirteen - THE BIRTH OF THE COUNTER COUNTERCULTURE
- Russell Kirk
- Milton Friedman
- Ayn Rand
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Barry Goldwater lights the prairie fire
- Out of the ashes
- Acknowledgements
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
