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America, Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. By Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. x, 358 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-509190-6. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-19-509191-4.)
Can the world use yet another history of the 1960s? That is the question raised by the publication of Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin's America Divided. Judged by this book, the answer is that it all depends. America Divided relies on standard secondary sources, offers little in the way of new interpretation, avoids unexplored territory, and is peopled by the usual characters saying the usual things. Choosing coverage over depth, the authors conduct a brisk tour of a remarkable number of subjects from John F. Kennedy through the Watergate break-in, now the commonly accepted end point of the so-called sixties. Scholars of the period will have to...