Berkeley, California stood at the center of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period in American history. InBerkeley at War, W.J. Rorabaugh, who attended the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s, presents a lively, informative account of the events that changed forever what had once been a quiet, conservative white suburb. Rorabaughs meticulously researched, authoritative narrative covers the entire period, from the rise of the Free Speech Movement to the growth and increasing militance of a black community struggling to end segregation; from the emergence of radicalism and the antiwar movement to the blossoming hippie culture; and from the explosive conflict over Peoples Park to the beginnings of modernday feminism and environmentalism. An invaluable account of its time and place,Berkeley at Waranchors the sixties in American history, both before and since that colorful decade.
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80,976 words336 pagesLexile 1230L9780195066678
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