Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas

Authors

Craig Miner, Wichita State University

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

This book is the second recent treatment of dissent in Kansas cities in the late twentieth century. Along with Gretchen Eick's Dissent in Wichita (2001), it shows that where active protest was concerned, Kansas in the 1960s and 1970s was no backwater. One could add the struggle over the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in the same era to complete the picture of a state evenly split on issues.