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This history of the 1960s United States by National Book Award winner Boyle (American history, Northwestern Univ.; Arc of Justice) begins with the story of a patriotic middle-class family in 1950s Chicago to set the stage for the tumultuous decade to follow. Boyle's cleverly written book covers (mostly chronologically) three broad subjects that played out between 1960 and 1972: first, the civil rights movement and activists who dealt with extreme viole...Log In or Sign Up to Read More