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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 28: Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968
Irving Bernstein. Promises Kept: John F.
Kennedy’s New Frontier (1991).
A brief and balanced account of Kennedy’s presidency
that presents a favorable report of the accomplishments and legacy of the New
Frontier.
Michael Beschloss. The Crisis Years: Kennedy
and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 (1991).
A strong narrative account of the Cold War
during the Kennedy administration and the personal duel between the leaders
of the two superpowers.
Clayborne Carson. In Struggle: SNCC and
the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981).
A useful study that uses the development of
SNCC to examine the changing patterns of the civil rights movement and the emergence
of black nationalism.
Robert Dallek. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
(1998).
A good account of Johnson the person and his
presidency that balances and integrates foreign policy issues with domestic
politics.
Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique
(1963).
The book that many believed caused the woman’s
movement of the 1960s.
Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the
1960s (1999).
The social and cultural currents of the 1960s
are skillfully woven into an overall picture of American society.
William L. Van Deburg. New Day in Babylon:
The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965–1975 (1992).
A well-written study of the varieties of the
Black Power movement and the development of an American consciousness.
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