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The age of great dreams : America in the 1960s / by David Farber ; Eric Foner, consulting editor
Blacks had their own schools, neighborhoods, churches, they were not permitted on the premises of all white facilities, nor could they even share the same part of a bus with whites. This new identity, in which differences were deliberately submerged, depended on magnifying other differences. For many among America's economic and political elites, the battle between Premier Khrushchev and Nixon during the Kitchen Debate marked the single most important public issue of their time--the confrontation with Communism. Beatniks, Beatles, Timothy Leary and marijuana busts shared prime time with Vietnam, Mario Salvio's Free Speech movement, Black Power and the landmark Civil Rights Act Lyndon Johnson reportedly said to segregationist Sen. In Japan in 1960, the ravages of the first atomic-bomb attacks were still being felt; bland rice porridge was still all most Japanese could rely on for nutrition.
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New political players and interest groups have multiplied, increasing the nature and scope of public debate—but also fracturing and even polarizing our governing process and cultural life. Freud's analysis demonstrates that the dream—far from being absurd—brought together recent experiences having to do with the dreamer's desire to memorialize his father 6. Of course, some in America knew that the paint was laid on a little thick. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more. By this point she sees herself not only as superior to her guests, she is Tom's equal. I read this book for my Social Science's class.
And in the United States domestic injustices and inequities made any claim to moral purity a highly dubious one. The six people spend the afternoon in a haze of drunkenness. He is completely unable to realize that his dream is not a reality and so stands watching for a sign from Daisy. In one sense, this is a lovely romantic gesture, but in another sense, it perpetuates a childish illusion. Gatsby's failure does not prove the folly of the American Dream—rather it proves the folly of short-cutting that dream by allowing corruption and materialism to prevail over hard work, integrity, and real love.
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Catholics and, with greater restrictions, Jews mixed with Protestants in these new communities. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. By 1960 some Americans, especially the young, were pondering the mixed cultural messages. He characterizes himself as both highly moral and highly tolerant. Beatniks, who'd fled corporate suburbia for a life of hard kicks and still minds.
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Many believed they were living the American dream; they saw their lives swirling with possibilities. In the 1960s—a long time ago—Americans wrestled, as we do today, with fundamental issues of critical national importance. Even less contested were the corporations' policies of racial and gender discrimination. All three spend the afternoon in the apartment that Tom has set up for her, which quickly turns into a drunken party. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. Francis Cardinal Spellman, the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church in America, was out of the country when the 1950s came to a close.
Kaiser Wilhelm ruler of Germany, 1871-1918. In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Some parts where incredibly drawn out and I wish it would just get to the point faster. Cody was then fifty, a self-made millionaire who had made his fortune during the Yukon gold rush. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
With deft overview, Farber explores the many intertwined movements, including Kennedy's strident anti-communist election campaign that later contributed to his committing combat troops in Vietnam. Richard Nixon, in one of those globe-hopping expeditions postwar Vice Presidents learned to endure, faced anti-American rage in its most visceral form while touring South America in 1958. Compared to the turn of the century or to the still-vivid hard times of the 1930s, the 1950s were a time of shared abundance and it seemed that the number of poor would shrink steadily. Few adult Americans who had weathered the Great Depression expected such luxury, much less expected it to become nationwide. The next day, however, Gatsby is shot by Wilson's grief-stricken husband, who traced him through his unique car and who, after killing Gatsby, kills himself. While on his own, he had the opportunity to reinvent himself, and due solely to his own ingenuity, Jimmy Gatz evolved into Jay Gatsby.
The author remains unbias, just presents all the known facts and perhaps why certain choices were made. While America's corporate leaders would hurt America in the long run by not more aggressively pursuing manufacturingexcellence during these boom times, they succeeded in driving the domestic economy, selling American-made products internationally, and providing American workers with the highest wage scale in the world. The eminent economist and social commentator John Kenneth Galbraith titled his 1958 best-seller about postwar America The Affluent Society, half in praise and half in criticism. Dichter meant that hardworking, decently paid factory workers should be taught that it was good, not bad, to go into debt to buy consumer goods, since general prosperity—based in large part on fruitful consumption—promised ever bigger paychecks down the road. I don't see great dreams in the 1960's. Money was, essentially, the issue that prevented their being together, and so Gatsby made sure he would never again be without it. A society that increasingly depended on selling an ideal of unrestrained pleasure might have difficulty defining the borders of responsible consumption, let alone inculcating an ethic of hard work, discipline, and respectability.
