What it was like to live in the 1960s from the New Frontier of Kennedy through Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, and the counterculture.

Includes index and chronology.

America Should Send A Man to the Moon / John F. Kennedy -- America's Race to the Moon is Misguided / Carl Dreher -- The American People and Government Should Strive to Create A "Great Society" / Lyndon B. Johnson -- America's Greatness Demands a Reduction in Government / Barry Goldwater -- President Johnson's Great Society Is Providing Creative Solutions for America's Problems / Max Ways -- President Johnson's Great Society is Not Solviing America's Problems / Paul Goodman and Richard Flacks -- Americans Should Support the Vietnam War / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Americans Should Oppose the Vietnam War / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Vietnam War Dissenters are Helping America / J. William Gulbright -- Vietnam War Dissenters Are Weakening America / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The Student Movement Is A Necessary Response to Problems in American Society / Students for a Democratic Society -- The Student Movement Stems From Boredom and Rebelliousness / Irving Kristol -- Hippies Are Creating A Desirable Social Revolution / Sonny, interviewed by Lewis Yablonsky -- Woodstock Proves the Viability of Countercultural Ideals / Margaret Mead -- Woodstock Does Not Prove the Viability of Countercultural Ideals / Philip P. Ardery Jr. -- The Civil Rights Struggle Brings Hope for Black Americans / Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Civil Rights Struggle has Brought Despair to Black Americans / Julius Lester -- Rioters Should Be Condemned for Rejecting Law and Order / Richard Nixon -- Riots Should Be Understood as Social Revolutions / Tom Hayden -- The Women's Liberation Movement is A Positive Force / Mary C. Segers -- The Womens' Liberation Movement Is Not A Positive Force / Anne Bernays -- Activists of the Sixties Were Idealistic and Visionary / Edward P. Morgan -- Activists of the Sixties Were Elitists and Alienating / David Farber.