![]() ![]() In this decade's wake, all hierarchical structures became more pliant, all judgments and critical evaluations and "canons" less definitive and acceptable. The Sixties delegitimized all sources of authority-governments, universities, parents, critics, experts, employers, the police, families, the military. And beyond the personal, there was the whole society. New careers, new loves, new connections, and new interests and attitudes could now be sampled and indulged. The attack on authority and hierarchy and the exaltation of the self freed some adults to reconnoiter their options as never before. Nor were the young the only ones whose lives were recast. Young men and women just reaching sexual maturity faced novelty, uncertainty, and opportunity as had no previous generation. For the first time, a generation of American college students contended with real-world politics, where significant gains and losses were at stake. The air resounded with harsh voices demanding, raging, denouncing, promising, accusing, cajoling.įew who reached adulthood between 19 remained unmarked by the events of those years. Life blueprints were rejected people struck out on new courses. ![]() It was a time when events went into overdrive, and the postwar social trajectory was deflected off line. Introduction The Sixties resound in our historical memory as do few other eras. 242 Eugene McCarthy and the "Children's Crusade". 239 Robert Kennedy And The 1968 Presidential Campaign. 196 North Vietnamese Official Explains Communist Negotiating Tactics. 195 McNamara Proposes Vietnam Escalation. 150 The National Organization for Women "Bill of Rights". The New Right.73 Fundamentalist Conservatism. ![]() 10 The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington. 9 Council of Economic Advisers Report, 1965. ![]() Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging.The Times Were A Changin' The Sixties ReaderĮditors: Irwin Unger, Debi Unger Publisher: Three Rivers Press Date: 1998 ISBN: 7-9 The New York Times has recognized the study as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.” The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. Colin Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. If we’re obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago? Title: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health 1st Edition Description: Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. ![]()
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