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By David Farber
This number of unique essays represents one of the most fascinating ways that historians are commencing to paint the Sixties onto the bigger canvas of yank heritage. whereas the 1st literature approximately this turbulent interval used to be written principally through individuals, a number of the participants to this quantity are younger students who got here of age intellectually within the Seventies and Eighties and therefore write from clean views. The essayists ask basic questions about how a lot the United States particularly replaced within the Nineteen Sixties and why definite adjustments came about. In separate chapters, they discover how the good problems with the decade-the conflict in Vietnam, race family members, early life tradition, the prestige of girls, the general public position of non-public enterprise-were formed through evolutions within the nature of cultural authority and political legitimacy. They argue that the whirlwind of occasions and difficulties we name the Sixties can in basic terms be understood within the context of the bigger background of post-World struggle II the United States.
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1 Subsequent arguments about national policy—from questions of Western expansion in the nineteenth century to the League of Nations fight in 1919 to the fiercely personal battles over isolationism in the 1930s—were embedded in the deep structure of this tension between allegiance to a central political symbol and organizing document and the need for clarity on who is authorized to manage and speak for national interests. In one sense, the architects of the postwar state engaged in time-honored elite practices when they co-opted the rhetoric and imagery of American history to justify policy changes.
Perspectives on Economic Growth (New York: Random House, 1968), ix. 32 Richard Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 132. 33 Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. : GPO, 1962), 41. 34 Walter Heller, New Dimensions of Political Economy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), vii-viii. 35 36 The phrase is from Heller, New Dimensions, 70. The "monetary twist" was a policy begun in 1961 that raised short-term interest rates in order to minimize the outflow of volatile funds to other countries while holding down long-term interest rates to encourage investment.
The "monetary twist" was a policy begun in 1961 that raised short-term interest rates in order to minimize the outflow of volatile funds to other countries while holding down long-term interest rates to encourage investment. 37 James Tobin, "The Political Economy of the 1960s," in Toward New Human Rights: The Social Policies of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, edited by David C. Warner (Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1977), 35. 38 29 Theodore H. White, In Search of History (New York: Harper and Row, 1978), 492-93.