The Promise of the Class of '64

ISBN: 196854822X

Author: Gillooly, John

Condition: New

It was late August 1963; Martin Luther King had just delivered his I Have a Dream speech and the vast majority of the approximately 3.5 million Americans born in 1946 were starting their senior year in high school.Over the next nine months the Class of 64, the first high school graduating class of American Baby Boomers would experience one of the most consequential periods in American history.The I Have a Dream speech; almost daily shifts of the American governments view of the situation in South Vietnam; the assassination of President Kennedy; the first American appearance of the Beatles; the daily legislative battles that led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill were just some of the happenings during the Class of 64s senior year.The Promise of the Class of 64 is a novel that combines actual New York Times newspaper accounts with a fictional coming of age tale of a group of New England suburban high school students during a transformative period in their lives and in American history.If you were born in 1946; if you attended high school in the 1960s; if you enjoy reading American history, this is a book for you.