Apocalypse Then : : American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 / / Robert R. Tomes.
Prior to the Vietnam war, American intellectual life rested comfortably on shared assumptions and often common ideals. Intellectuals largely supported the social and economic reforms of the 1930s, the war against Hitler's Germany, and U.S. conduct during the Cold War. By the early 1960s, a libe...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1998] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 1998 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A Long Time in the Comin’
- 2. Consensus and Commitment
- 3. The Search for Order
- 4. Skepticism and Dissent
- 5. The Collapse of the Liberal Consensus, 1968
- 6. The Twilight of Liberalism, 1969–1975
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author