This volume gathers together essays that examine America in the 1960s, covering topics such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the policies of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the East-West battles of ideology and arms, and the decade's liberal ascendancy.
Eugene Davidson is the author of numerous books, including The Death & Life of Germany, The Making of Adolf Hitler, The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler, The Trial of the Germans, and The Nuremberg Fallacy, all now available from the University of Missouri Press. Davidson, who lives in Santa Barbara, California, is President Emeritus of the Conference on European Problems and former President of the Foundation for Foreign Affairs.