"The Movement and the Sixties"

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This paper explains how Terry Anderson's book provides a fascinating look at an era that thoroughly changed the face and shape of the United States and whose ramifications are still being felt and debated forty years later. It shows how "The Movement and the Sixties" is a reference to the widespread social activism that people all over the country engaged in during this time.

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"The book was published in 1995 and is markedly different from other books on the topic in a few ways, which the author discusses in the preface. First of all, this book, Anderson says, is not a memoir or "participant history" book. Many books about the Sixties fall into the memoir category and are a recollection of how one person experienced the Sixties, what he or she did, this person's particular impact, if any, and so on. These books are often nostalgic in tone and don't generally offer an in-depth understanding of the events behind the Sixties and the Movement. Anderson, on the other hand, while "experiencing the decade with fascination, was not a leader or member of any Movement organization" (Preface). "

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