The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle

26/10/2021 18h 22min
The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle

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Title: The Shattering: America in the 1960s
Author: Kevin Boyle
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 22 minutes
Release date: October 26, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social violence, and the blowback of a 'silent majority' shredded the American fabric. Covering the late 1950s through the early 1970s, The Shattering focuses on the period's fierce conflicts over race, sex, and war. The civil rights movement develops from the grassroots activism of Montgomery and the sit-ins, through the violence of Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign, a rising Black nationalism, and the Nixon-era politics of busing and the Supreme Court. Kevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Often they are everyday people like Elizabeth Eckford, enduring a hostile crowd outside her newly integrated high school in Little Rock, or Estelle Griswold, welcoming her arrest for dispensing birth control information in a Connecticut town.