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Contributions in American history volume no. 188
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in American history volume no. 189
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
11) The Bay of Pigs
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of President Eisenhower's disastrous attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
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Oxford University Press
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Not Supplied
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English
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"As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided...