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The political scientist Hans J. Morgenthau reflected in the New York Review of Books (September 24, 1970) that the distribution of power in America had survived the sixties as it had all previous reform movements.
Focusing on the public affairs of America, Michael Heale introduces the reader to the major changes which governed life in the sixties.
This lively and provocative collection of essays on the social upheavals of the 1960s is a major contribution to our understanding of that tumultuous decade. Written by a group of former...
After initial disinterest, America strived to integrate Scandinavia into the US–led Western security system. Norway and Denmark became US allies and joined NATO as founding members in 1949. Sweden remained non-aligned, but formed close military ties to the United States in 1949–1952.
Combining analytical essays and historical documents, the book highlights the polarization of the decade by focusing on the political, social, and cultural debates that divided the nation then and now. The book does not present the 1960s as radical or liberal, as many others have.
For decades, these visiting Americans and a few Danes taught U.S. history primarily in departments of English and seldom in history or political science departments. A Danish Center for American Studies was almost established in 1970 at Århus University, but antipathy to the Vietnam War shaped a political climate that made it impossible, and ...
4 wrz 2020 · This article investigates Norman Mailer's appropriation and Americanization of the concept of totalitarianism as an internal critique of US society and culture in the 1960s. Dominant understandings of totalitarianism from the 1930s to the 1950s focused on external threats and were wedded to notions of pervasive state control of all aspects of life.
