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Warren Winter AP American History Mr. Matson 3/2/05 Rapidly intensifying after 1965, the social and cultural antagonisms that rent the United States further bifurcated to an insoluable extent. In his book Grand Expectations, James T. Patterson asserts, "The social an d political history of the United States in the next few years witnessed mainly an extension -- sometimes an acceleration -- of the conflicts that reached their peak in 1968" (709). Violent reactions and counter reactions immediately circulated through mass media and shook the coherence and stability of the country. In The Anxious Years Kim McQuaid writes, "By 1968, American life was characterized by a climate of crisis and a polarizing sense of unexpected complexity and limits to the possible" (9). In the earlier part of the year, the Tet Offensive and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy aroused a radicalization of the young and a large portion of...

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