Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties [Paperback]

Explores life in America in the early Sixties when Kennedy was President.The book explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was president. Cold War frustrations and nuclear disaster worried Americans. The civil rights movement gained momentum. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a spokesman for nonviolent social change. The American family evolved. Friedan began the Women's Movement. Beat authors Kerouac and Ginsberg, folksingers Baez and Dylan, and Pop artists Lichtenstein and Warhol joined the cultural scene. Here was a period of marked political, social and cultural change. The old was swept away, and the country that the United States became began to be born.The book explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was president. Cold War frustrations and nuclear disaster worried Americans. The civil rights movement gained momentum. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a spokesman for nonviolent social change. The American family evolved. Friedan began the Women's Movement. Beat authors Kerouac and Ginsberg, folksingers Baez and Dylan, and Pop artists Lichtenstein and Warhol joined the cultural scene. Here was a period of marked political, social and cultural change. The old was swept away, and the country that the United States became began to be born.This book explores life in America during that brief promising period in the early sixties when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president. Kennedy's optimism and charm helped to give promise to the times. At the same time, Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans, while the 1962 Missile Crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. Early in the decade, the Civil Rights movement gained momentum through student sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a powerful spokesman for non-violent social change and gave his powerful I Have a Dream speech at the Marchls(