James T. Patterson

Saturday, Nov 24, 2012 2:00 PM UTC

Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong

Think it was a decade of sex, protest and psychedelics? Nope. As late as 1964, the decade looked like the '50s

James T. Patterson 93 Topics: The Eve of Destruction, The 1960s, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Civil rights movement, Books, James Patterson

James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation professor of history emeritus at Brown University. He is also the author of "Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore," "Brown v. Board of Education" and the Bancroft Prize-winning "Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-74."

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