This book explores life in America during that brief promising period in the early 1960s, when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president. Kennedy's optimism and charm helped to give promise to a time that drastically shaped America's future.
Explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was president. The early Sixties was a period of marked political, social and cultural change. The old was swept away, and the country that the United States became began to be born.
Introduction; 1. Kennedy; 2. The cold war; 3. Civil rights; 4. Families; 5. Cosmologies; 6. Dallas; Conclusion.