Long Sixties

In this unique and compelling book Tom Hayden argues that Barack Obama would not have been able to mount a successful presidential campaign without the movements of the 1960s. The Long Sixties shows that movements throughout history triumph over Machiavellians, gaining social reforms while leaving both revolutionaries and reactionaries frustrated. Hayden argues that the 1960s left a critical imprint on America, from civil rights laws to the birth of the environmental movement, and forced open the political process to women and people of colour. He urges President Obama to continue this legacy with a popular programme of economic recovery, green jobs and health care reform. The Long Sixties is a carefully researched history which will be of interest to activists, journalists and historians as the fiftieth anniversary of the 1960s begins.

Tom Hayden

Part I The First Sixties, 1955-1965; Introduction; Chapter 1 Dawn; Chapter 2 The Port Huron Vision of SDS; Chapter 3 New Left versus New Frontier; Chapter 4 From the Washington March to the Assassination of JFK; Chapter 5 The Mississippi Freedom Democrats' Challenge; Chapter 6 The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965; Chapter 7 The Counterculture, 1964-1965; Part II The Second Sixties, 1965-1975; Chapter 8 America Invading Vietnam, Vietnam Invading America; Chapter 9 Toppling the Ivory Tower: The Student Strikes at Columbia and San Francisco State, 1968-1969; Chapter 10 The Chicago Conspiracy; Chapter 11 Cambodia, Yale, and Kent State; Chapter 12 The Watergate Coup and the Antiwar Movement; Chapter 13 Wounded Knee and the End of the Sixties; Part III The Sixties at Fifty; Chapter 14 Che Guevara and the Sixties; Chapter 15 The Underground in America; Chapter 16 The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam; Chapter 17 Peace in Northern Ireland; Chapter 18 From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime; Chapter 19 Liberation Theology; Chapter 20 Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology; Chapter 21 The Spirituality of the Counterculture; Part IV The Sixties in the Obama Era; Chapter 22 A Call to Progressives for Obama with Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr. (March 10, 2008); Chapter 23 Dreaming Obama in North Carolina: A Story of Race and Inheritance; Chapter 24 Bobby and Barack; Chapter 25 Barack Obama between Movements and MachiavellianspartV A Sixties Timeline;