Each
essay in this volume sheds light on an important aspect of the decade-actually
a decade and half-known as the Sixties. The Sixties are famous for
the diverse social movements that threatened the essence of American
public policy and mainstream society and changed those very entities
in fundamental ways. These essays juxtapose the dramatic narratives
of social movements, including civil rights, women's liberation, and
anti-war protest, and the Cold War liberalism that spawned them. The
contributors are two political scientists, several historians influenced
by the social sciences, and the senior staff attorney for the NOW
Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Contributors are Brian Balogh, Hugh Heclo, Martha
Derthick, Daryl Michael Scott, W. J. Rorabaugh, Martha F. Davis,
and Louis Galambos.
Contents
Introduction Brian Balogh
The Sixties' False
Dawn: Awakenings, Movements, and Postmodern Policy-Making Hugh
Heclo
Crossing
Thresholds: Federalism in the 1960s Martha Derthick
The
Politics of Pathology: The Ideological Origins of the Moynihan Controversy Daryl Michael Scott
Challenging
Authority, Seeking Community, and Empowerment in the New Left, Black
Power, and Feminism W. J. Rorabaugh
Welfare
Rights and Women's Rights in the 1960s Martha F. Davis
Paying
Up: The Price of the Vietnam War Louis Galambos
Brian
Balogh is Associate Professor of History at the University
of Virginia. He is the author of Chain Reaction: Expert Debate
and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power (Cambridge, 1991).
