Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994)

David Farber.
The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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General Documentaries:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Video: David Farber
  • David Farber, "The Vietnam Anti-War Movement," Temple University, Pennsylvania, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 21 October 2010.
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  • David Farber, "The American Conservative Tradition and the 2012 Presidential Election," Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, 03 December 2012.
    (Event announcement at CASAR.)
    Although this is not a talk about the 1960s, Farber very competently delivers an interesting talk surveying U.S. history since the New Deal era, and it is the only non-C-SPAN video of Farber I could find. Also, Farber is addressing a non-U.S. audience which gives the talk and question session an interesting flavor of international comparative history.
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  • Lily Geismer, Robert O. Self, Julian E. Zelizer, Bruce J. Schulman (moderator), David Farber (commentor), "Rethinking the Election of 1964," Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, C-SPAN, 10 April 2014.
    Books by the presenters:
    • Lily Geismer, Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, Princeton University Press, 2014.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • Robert O. Self, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, New York: Hill and Wang (Macmillan), 2012.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • Julian E. Zelizer, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, New York: Penguin Press, 2015.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • Alice Echols and David Farber, "1960s-Era Counterculture," Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, C-SPAN, 11 April 2014.
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Video: Political History
  • Kevin Schultz, "America in the 1960s," University of Illinois at Chicago, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 08 April 2015.
    Search YouTube for Buffalo Springfield, "For What It's Worth" (1967).
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  • Kriste Lindenmeyer, "20th Century Political Activism," University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 26 March 2011.
    On activism among young people following World War II, a movement that continued through the Vietnam era (1945-1975).
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  • Leonard Steinhorn, "Impact of 1968," American University, Washington DC, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 01 April 2013.
    Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006; New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • Rowland Evans, Mary McGrory, Hugh Sidey, Brian Lamb, Andrea Mitchell, "1968 - The Year and The Campaign," C-SPAN, 7 September 1993.
    C-SPAN produced a number of programs in 1993 reflecting on 1968.
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Video: Cold War~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Video: Vietnam War
  • Sean (Seanegan) Sculley, "The Vietnam War Era" (alternate lecture title: The Culture of Vietnam), U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 14 April 2011.
    Book discussed:
    Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, 1972.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • Donald Stoker, "North Vietnamese Strategy During the Vietnam War," U.S. Naval War College, Monterey, California, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 18 November 2011.
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  • Meredith Lair, "Vietnam Veterans," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 24 September 2012.
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  • Marilyn B. Young, Michael Lind, David Little, "U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War," The Vietnam War: Then and Now, Washington DC Center of New York University, American History TV, C-SPAN, 29 April 2015.
    Books by the speakers:
    • Marilyn B. Young, The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • Michael Lind, Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, New York: The Free Press / Simon & Schuster, 1999.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • David Little, American Foreign Policy & Moral Rhetoric: The Example of Vietnam, Council on Religion and International Affairs, 1969.
      [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • Elizabeth Holtzman, "Keynote Address," The Vietnam War: Then and Now, Washington DC Center of New York University, American History TV, C-SPAN, 29 April 2015.
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Video: Economic History
  • Judith Stein, "Politics & Economics in the 1970s," Graduate Center, City University of New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 27 March 2012.
    Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post on Pivotal Decade is here.
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Some Wikipedia Articles:

1960s Flashback
(This website has many helpful lists by year on economics, books, films, TV shows, and more.)

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Selected Documents:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Books of the 1960s:
(Some notable books which in various ways influenced the culture and politics of the U.S. 1960s or were products of those times, most of which I have not read.)
  • Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," 1849.
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854.
  • José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, 1930.
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, 1932.
  • Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934; 1961.
  • Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940.
  • Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941.
  • Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945.
  • John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946.
  • Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949.
  • Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1949.
  • David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, 1950.
  • Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951.
  • Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, 1951.
  • Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, 1951.
  • C. Wright Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, 1951.
  • J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
  • Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952.
  • Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, 1952.
  • Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953.
  • Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953.
  • William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954.
  • James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955.
  • Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, 1955.
  • Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1955.
  • Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems, 1956.
  • John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 (ghost-written by Theodore Sorensen).
  • C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite, 1956.
  • William H. Whyte, The Organization Man, 1956.
  • Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957.
  • Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, 1957.
  • Nevil Shute, On the Beach, 1957.
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, 1958.
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 1958.
  • Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, 1958.
  • William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American, 1958.
  • Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, 1959.
  • John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959.
  • Vance Packard, The Status Seekers, 1959.
  • Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative, 1960 (ghost-written by L. Brent Bozell Jr.).
  • Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1960.
  • John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 1960.
  • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960.
  • Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961.
  • Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961.
  • Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person, 1961.
  • Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960, 1961.
  • Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, 1962.
  • Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 1962.
  • Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962.
  • Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, 1962.
  • Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962.
  • Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962.
  • Dwight Macdonald, Against the American Grain: Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture, 1962.
  • Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1963.
  • James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963.
  • Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963.
  • Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, 1963.
  • Alfred P. Sloan, My Years with General Motors, 1963.
  • Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 1964.
  • Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, 1964.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1964.
  • Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 1964.
  • Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964.
  • Kingsley Amis, The James Bond Dossier, 1965.
  • Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, 1965.
  • John Fowles, The Magus, 1965.
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965.
  • Ralph Nader, Unsafe At Any Speed, 1965.
  • Sylvia Plath, Ariel, 1965.
  • Robert Penn Warren, Who Speaks for the Negro?, 1965.
  • Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, 1965.
  • Robin Wood, Hitchcock's Films, 1965.
  • Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966.
  • Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, and Other Essays, 1966.
  • Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, 1966.
  • Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America, 1967.
  • Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture & Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, 1967.
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State, 1967.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
  • Norman Mailer, Why Are We in Vietnam?: A Novel, 1967.
  • Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968.
  • Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, 1968.
  • Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, 1968.
  • Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1968.
  • Nicholas von Hoffman, We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against, 1968.
  • George F. Kennan, editor, Democracy and the Student Left, 1968.
  • Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, 1968.
  • Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History, 1968.
  • Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968, 1968.
  • Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi, 1968.
  • Adam Smith, The Money Game, 1968.
  • Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 1968.
  • Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968.
  • Tom Wolfe, The Pump House Gang, 1968.
  • Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969.
  • H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, 1969.
  • Noam Chomsky, American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969.
  • Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969.
  • Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation, 1969.
  • Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves, 1970.
  • Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, 1970.
  • Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970.
  • Kate Millett, Sexual Politics, 1970.
  • Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America, 1970.
  • Jerry Rubin, Do It! : Scenarios of the Revolution, 1970.
  • Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals, 1971.
  • Ram Dass/Richard Alpert, Remember, Be Here Now, 1971.
  • Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book, 1971.
  • The Pentagon Papers, 1971.
  • Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, 1971.
  • Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963, 1971.
  • William Powell, The Anarchist Cookbook, 1971.
  • John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971.
  • Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, 1971.
  • Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, 1972.
  • Vietnam Veterans Against the War, The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes, 1972.
  • Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, 1973.
  • John Brooks, The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s, 1973.
  • Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973.
  • Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS: The Rise and Development of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1973.
  • Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, 1974.
  • Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974.
  • Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, 1975.
  • Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, 1976.
  • Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, 1977.
  • Michael Herr, Dispatches, 1977.
  • Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, 1977.
  • Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato, 1978.
  • Joan Didion, The White Album: Essays, 1979.
  • Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, 1979.
  • Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, 1982.
  • Tom Hayden, The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama, 2009.
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