America in the years from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan. An  examination of such topics as the myth of Camelot, the civil rights  movement and the subsequent black uprising, Vietnam and its aftermath,  the rise of counterculture, campus unrest and the student movement, the  road to Watergate and the retreat into narcissism, the pervasive  influence of television, and the rise of neo-conservatism. Also,  consideration of the literature: modernism and fabulism in fiction,  social and cultural criticism,
nd the new journalism in nonfiction.