The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s

In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more.

In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country''s grand projects of previous decades. Farber''s important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more.

• | Author: David R. Farber, Eric Foner
• | Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 1994
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780809015672
• | ISBN-10: 0809015676