On the Cusp
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1950s American history
1950s student activism
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all-male campus dynamics
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American cultural transformation
American postwar urban context
analysis of mid-twentieth-century campus culture
archival letters and personal papers
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civic engagement of students
civil rights movement emergence
class of 1960 alumni
Cold War consensus critique
Cold War cultural shifts
collective biography of classmates
college life in the 1950s
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cultural history of mid-twentieth century
decolonization movements impact
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generational cohort analysis
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historical perspectives on youth activism
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left- and right-wing student perspectives
McCarthyism and political climate
memoir-based historical study
mid-century political evolution
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personal memoir and historical analysis
political and social awakening
political consciousness in higher education
postwar dissent in America
postwar social change
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race and gender in American politics
role of universities in class structures
social history of elite universities
social mobility and higher education
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student life and extracurricular influence
transformation to the 1960s
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university and societal change
urban renewal in mid-century America
Vietnam War influence on youth
Yale College undergraduate experience
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Product details
- ISBN 9781625341440
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2015
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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How did the 1950s become “The Sixties”? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz’s On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort. A Jewish “townie” from New Haven when he entered Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male campus, then ranges beyond the confines of Yale to larger contexts, including the local drama of urban renewal, the lingering shadow of McCarthyism, and decolonization movements around the world.
He ponders the role of the university in protecting the prerogatives of class while fostering social mobility, and examines the growing significance of race and gender in American politics and culture, spurred by a convergence of the personal and the political. Along the way he traces the political evolution of his classmates, left and right, as Cold War imperatives lose force and public attention shifts to the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. Throughout Horowitz draws on a broad range of sources, including personal interviews, writings by classmates, reunion books, issues of the Yale Daily News, and other undergraduate publications, as well as his own letters and college papers. The end product is a work consistent with much of Horowitz’s previously published scholarship on postwar America, further exposing the undercurrent of discontent and dissent that ran just beneath the surface of the so-called Cold War consensus.
He ponders the role of the university in protecting the prerogatives of class while fostering social mobility, and examines the growing significance of race and gender in American politics and culture, spurred by a convergence of the personal and the political. Along the way he traces the political evolution of his classmates, left and right, as Cold War imperatives lose force and public attention shifts to the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. Throughout Horowitz draws on a broad range of sources, including personal interviews, writings by classmates, reunion books, issues of the Yale Daily News, and other undergraduate publications, as well as his own letters and college papers. The end product is a work consistent with much of Horowitz’s previously published scholarship on postwar America, further exposing the undercurrent of discontent and dissent that ran just beneath the surface of the so-called Cold War consensus.
Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies Emeritus at Smith College, USA. He is author of Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) and The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
