At the end of the Second World War the USA emerged victorious as the dominant superpower in the world. Unlike devastated Europe, for Americans the future seemed to promise an age of prosperity and optimism. Indeed, Americans were richer, better fed, housed and educated than ever before.
Yet the following three decades saw unprecedented social turmoil as a wide range of groups protested, marched and demanded radical changes to their political rights, economic opportunities and to the US way of life itself. Some even turned to violence. Why, when the USA was seemingly at its most successful, were so many of its citizens calling for change?
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