1960-1980

Examines American society in the 1970's, concludes that it is a narcissistic one, and provides suggestions for reforms.

Text and photos chronicle the year 1968 in American social, political, and popular culture, covering the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, and the stars of rock music, among other topics.

Todd Gitlin was an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. Today he is a writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California. His book is part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation and resurrects a generation in all its glory and tragedy.

A history of the social activism that defined a generation of young Americans and the decade of the sixties.

Orphaned at sixteen, Karl Russel keeps a journal of his inner life during the chaotic sixties in the United States, and on to the political terrorism of Rio de Janeiro and its "invisible" population of the disfigured.

Journalist Tom Brokaw looks back on life in the United States during the 1960s, sharing the perspectives and experiences of famous and ordinary people who were affected by the tumultuous times, discussing changes that occurred in politics, culture, and society, and looking at how the era influenced events to come.