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The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. By David Farber. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. viii, 236 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-2401-2. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8090-1567-6.)
This is a solid, readable, and generally balanced overview of the 1960s. There is little if anything here that scholars of the period will find innovative, but scholars are not the intended audience. The book's target is instead undergraduates who have had little or no exposure to historical scholarship on this period. David Farber provides, for the most part, a relatively reliable and straightforward text, but he does make some unusual choices that distinguish this book from others. The television show The Beverly Hillbillies, for instance, receives almost three pages of analysis, while the Kennedy assassination, the space...