Table of Contents: What really happened to the 1960s

Main Author:	Morgan, Edward P., 1945-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2010.
Physical Description:	xiii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:	Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Democracy -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States. Social movements -- United States -- Public opinion. Counterculture -- United States -- Public opinion. Hippies -- United States -- Public opinion. Public opinion -- United States. United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Table of Contents:

The past as prologue : distorted history, declining democracy
Roots of the sixties : contradictions between capitalism and democracy in postwar America
An awakening democratic dialectic : from action to empowerment in the 1960s
Race, class, and gender : the boundaries of legitimate media discourse
Vietnam and the spheres of media discourse
Visual drama : the power of the image
System response : generational hype and political backlash
Media, militancy, and violence : the making of "bad sixties" icons
Domesticating the sixties : capitalism's cultural co-optation
Reconstructing the past, constructing the future : corporate backlash and the Reagan revolution
The "sixties" nostalgia market and the culture of self-satire
Cultural politics and warlike discourse
Media culture and the future of democracy.