Years of Discord American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 [Paperback]

For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world.Once again, John Morton Blum has brought to life a critical period of American history. An illuminating account of the amazing Sixties, and an invaluable contribution to the history of our times.In this incisive, judicious and eminently readable book, a master historian tels the story of those tangled and turbulent years just behind usyears that shook and remolded the republic. A vivid and masterful account of the terrible discord and violence of those years. C. Vann Woodward