Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index.

Part I. The first Sixties, 1955-1965

Introduction : movements against Machiavellians

Dawn

The Port Huron vision of SDS

New Left versus New Frontier

From the Washington March to the assassination of JFK

The Mississippi Freedom Democrats' challenge

The Berkley Free Speech movement, 1964-1965

The counterculture, 1964-1965

Part II. The second Sixties, 1965-1975.

America invading Vietnam, Vietnam invading America

Toppling the Ivory Tower : the student strikes at Columbia and San Francisco State, 1968-1969

The Chicago Conspiracy

Cambodia, Yale, and Kent State

The Watergate coup and the Antiwar Movement

Wounded Knee and the end of the Sixties

Part III. The Sixties at fifty

Che Guevara and the Sixties

The underground in America

The old revolutionaries of Vietnam

Peace in Northern Ireland

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

Liberation theology

Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation theology

The spirituality of the counterculture

Part IV. The Sixties in the Obama era

A call to progressives for Obama, with Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Dreaming Obama in North Carolina : a story of race and inheritance

Bobby and Barack

Barack Obama between movements and Machiavellians

Part V. A sixties timeline