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A 3 page paper which reviews the work "Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s" by William L. O'Neill. No additional sources cited.
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It seemed as though everything and anything that worried people was being fought for or against as people attempted to change the society from perhaps every single perspective possible. In
William L. ONeills book "Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s" the author takes us through many different subjects and areas of focus and concern during the
1960s. The following paper presents a general review of the work. Coming Apart As mentioned, the 1960s were filled with public and private focus on almost everything imaginable. In
ONeills work he truly does an excellent job at touching on as many subjects as possible. He speaks of the countercultures, the drug movement where people seemed to be doing
drugs all the time in order to raise their level of consciousness, the political turmoil, the war in Vietnam, diplomacy issues regarding international relations, Civil Rights struggles, and perhaps almost
everything one could imagine. In ONeills book we are not given incredible details into every aspect of the 1960s, but rather we are provided with numerous conditions and realities
that explain enough of the situations to keep our interest and perhaps allow us to further research and study on our own. In doing this ONeill is provided almost an
extended outline of the 1960s and piquing our interest. ONeill clearly illustrates the decade as one of change, and one of desire. It is a decade that desired to
find more substance and meaning in life, but also a decade that was the result of too much complacency during the 1950s. People were perhaps tired of the simplistic view
of life where the American people were essentially kept in the dark and thus many movements really took hold and came to the surface so to speak. However, ONeill also
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