Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　The book explores life in America during that brief promising
moment in the early six-ties when John F. Kennedy was president.
Kennedy’s Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried
Americans. The 1962 missile crisis na~rrowly avoided a nuclear
disaster. The civil rights movement gained momentum with student
sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and crises in Mississippi and Alabama.
Martin Luther King, Jr.. emerged as a spokesman for nonviolent
social change. The American family was undergoing rapid change.
Betty Friedan began to launch the Women’s IVIovement. The Beat
authors Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg gained respectability. Joan
Baez and Bob Dylan revived folk music. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy
Warhol produced Pop Art. Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Tim-othy Leary,
and Ken Kesey began to promote psychedelic drugs. The early sixties
was a period of marked political, social, and cultural change. The
old was swept away, and the United States began to become the
country that it is today.

　　W. J. Rorabaugh teaches history at the University of
Washington in Seattle.