America's uncivil wars: the sixties era : from Elvis to the fall of Richard Nixon

Introduction

PART ONE: THE ERA OF CONSENSUS, 1954-63: The consensus

The cultural cold war

Cracks in the consensus

The new generation

The cold war on the New Frontier

The second civil war

PART TWO: THE SIXTIES, 1964-68: 1964: welcome to the 1960s

Teach-in, strike-out: the uncivil wars heat up

The great freak forward

A very bad year begins

A bad year gets worse: the domestic war front

PART THREE: THE RISE OF ESSENTIALIST POLITICS AND THE FALL OF RICHARD NIXON, 1969-74: The rise of gender and identity politics

Identities of race and ethnicity

Taking on the system

The uncivil wars: Woodstock to Kent State

Watergate: the last battle

Epilogue: Who won?