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The fifties : an underground history Cover Image Book Book

The fifties : an underground history

Gaines, James R. (author.).

Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--

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  • ISBN: 9781439101636
  • ISBN: 1439101639
  • ISBN: 9781439109915
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: Meet Jane Crow -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.

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Counterculture United States History 20th century
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Nineteen fifties
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Progressisme États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle
Années cinquante (Vingtième siècle)
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