The Sixties and the End of Modern America

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This is an historical narrative that describes and analyzes the changes and excitement of the 60s. He proposes that it was a time that rejected complacency in order to recover a zeal for the pursuit of excellence, for the nation to re-awaken to a sense of national mission and ideals; and a time when artists, intellectuals and the young offered alternatives to what the nation had become.

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