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The book depicts American history throughout the 1960s. The book's title refers to a fragile but stable social fabric that was present in the United States in the 1950s, held together by racial segregation, an expanding military industrial complex and repression of sexual rights; a social order that would be shattered in the 1960s. [2]
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1960 through 1969 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
March 3 – Elvis Presley returns home from Germany to the United States, after being away on military duty for 2 years. March 5 – Elvis Presley receives his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. March 6 – Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
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Date Book Author January 3: Advise and Consent: Allen Drury: January 10 January 17: Hawaii: James Michener: January 24: Advise and Consent: Allen Drury January 31
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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "1960 books" The following 13 pages are in this ...