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The fifties : an underground history

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Gaines, James R. (author.).

Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines."--

Record details

ISBN: 1439101639
ISBN: 9781439101636
Physical Description: xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: "Meet Jane Crow" -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.