Laura Bieger & Christian Lammert 
Revisiting the Sixties 
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America’s Longest Decade

Preface Laura Bieger and Christian Lammert

The Substance of the Sixties Hayden White

The Three Faces of the New Left: Civil Rights, The Anti-War Movement, Women’s Liberation Eli Zaretsky

Long Shadows of the New Left: From Students for a Democratic Society to Occupy Wall Street Blair Taylor

Feminism’s Two Legacies: A Tale of Ambivalence Nancy Fraser

The Free University Berlin and the John F. Kennedy Institute in the Sixties

Winfried Fluck ‘The Man for the 60’s’/’The man of the 60’s’: John F. Kennedy and the Thousand Days Andreas Etges

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Deception in American Foreign Policy Lora Anne Viola

Goldwater’s Phoenix: Individualism, Suburbia, and the Idyll of the Apocalypse Andrew S. Gross

Thomas Pynchon, Postmodernism, and the Rise of the New Right in California Casey Shoop

Problems of Historicizing and Practices of Reading: Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting… Florian Sedlmeier

The Cinema of Insanity: Psychiatry, Popular Culture, and the Flexibilization of Normality Simon Schleusener

Absorption and Utopia: Mapping the Sixties in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point Sulgi Lie

Faith Ringgold’s Slave Rape Series: A Counter-Narrative to African (American) Women as Victims Vivien Green Fryd

Remembering Motown: Baby Boomers, Blackness, and the Sixties in Pop-Cultural Memory Martin Lüthe

Mad Men-Sadnesses of the Sixties Elisabeth K. Paefgen

Editors and Contributors