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THE SHATTERING - KEVIN BOYLE TASCHENBUCH

On July 4  1961  the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighbourhood gathered before
their flag-bedecked houses  a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered
over the following decade  its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful
civil rights and anti-war movements. Assassinations  social violence and the blowback of a
silent majority shredded the American fabric. Covering the late 1950s through the early 1970s 
The Shattering focuses on the period's fierce conflicts over race  sex and war. The civil
rights movement develops from the grassroots activism of Montgomery and the sit-ins  through
the violence of Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge  to the frustrations of King's Chicago
campaign  a rising Black nationalism  and the Nixon-era politics of busing and the Supreme
Court. The Vietnam war unfolds as Cold War policy  high-stakes politics buffeted by powerful
popular movements and searing in-country experience. Americans' challenges to government
regulation of sexuality yield landmark decisions on privacy rights  gay rights  contraception
and abortion. Kevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with
a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Often they are
everyday people like Elizabeth Eckford  enduring a hostile crowd outside her newly integrated
high school in Little Rock  or Estelle Griswold  welcoming her arrest for dispensing birth
control information in a Connecticut town. Political leaders also emerge in revealing detail:
we track Richard Nixon's inheritances from Eisenhower and his debt to George Wallace  who
forged a message of racism mixed with blue-collar grievance that Nixon imported into
Republicanism. The Shattering illuminates currents that still run through our politics. It is a
history for our times.

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