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60/100Critics
87/100Scholars
Author:
Kevin Boyle
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
October 26, 2021
The National Book Award-winning William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University offers a history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America's postwar order and divide us still.
What The Reviewers Say
... [a] luminous guide to a tumultuous decade.
... [a] rich, layered account of the 1960s.
Along with most professional historians, Boyle rejects the commonly held assumption that a Berlin Wall separated the consensual 1950s from the divisive '60s. In the '50s, he demonstrates, amid repression, racism, anxiety and anger, boundaries were contested and occasionally broken. Inevitably, given the number of books on the 1960s, a lot of material in The Shattering will be familiar to readers. That said, Boyle enlivens his narrative with emblematic vignettes..
A professor of history at Northwestern University, Boyle draws on a wide range of important historical scholarship produced over the last 20 or so years on topics like the Black freedom movement, modern political history and U.S. empire.
