![]() ![]() This book will be invaluable to anyone eager to know the real story behind the political and cultural consequences of that tumultuous time."―Tom Brokaw, author of Boom! Talking About the Sixties " Framing the Sixties is a smart, important and impressively researched account of the decade that far too often is reduced to clichés by the left and the right. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. What this book documents is the extent to which political leaders, left and right, consciously exploited those divisions by "framing" the memory of that turbulent decade to serve their own partisan interests. It is no secret that the upheavals of the 1960s opened fissures within American society that have continued to affect the nation's politics and to intensify its so-called culture wars. In addition to analyzing the pronouncements of the presidents themselves, von Bothmer draws on interviews he conducted with more than one hundred and twenty cabinet members, speechwriters, advisers, strategists, historians, journalists, and activists from across the political spectrum―from Julian Bond, Daniel Ellsberg, Todd Gitlin, and Arthur Schlesinger to James Baker, Robert Bork, Phyllis Schlafly, and Paul Weyrich. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. Bush―each sought to advance his political agenda by consciously shaping public understanding of the meaning of "the Sixties." He compares not only the way that each depicted the decade as a whole, but also their commentary on a set of specific topics: the presidency of John F. He shows how four presidents―Ronald Reagan, George H. In Framing the Sixties, Bernard von Bothmer examines this battle over the collective memory of the decade primarily through the lens of presidential politics. Liberals recall the positive associations of what might be called the "good Sixties"―the "Camelot" years of JFK, the early civil rights movement, and the dreams of the Great Society―while conservatives conjure images of the "bad Sixties"―a time of urban riots, antiwar protests, and countercultural revolt. Over the past quarter century, American liberals and conservatives alike have invoked memories of the 1960s to define their respective ideological positions and to influence voters. ![]()
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