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Condition	Brand New
ISBN	9781324036111
Book Title	Shattering : America in the 1960s
Publisher	Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length	8.3 in
Publication Year	2022
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	1.2 in
Author	Kevin Boyle
Genre	Political Science, History
Topic	United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Social History
Item Weight	13.5 Oz
Item Width	5.4 in
Number of Pages	496 Pages

Shattering : America in the 1960s, Paperback by Boyle, Kevin, ISBN 1324036117, ISBN-13 9781324036111, Brand New, Free shipping in the USOn 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 the blowback of a “silent majority” shredded the American ShatteringKevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Often they are everyday people like Elizabeth Eckford, enduring a hostile crowd outside her newly integrated high school in Little Rock, or Estelle Griswold, welcoming her arrest for dispensing birth control information in a Connecticut town. Political leaders also emerge in revealing detail: we track Richard Nixon’s inheritances from Eisenhower and his debt to George Wallace, who forged a message of racism mixed with blue-collar grievance that Nixon imported into Shattering