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The turbulence of the Sixties protest movements, the drug-friendly love-ins of the flower children, and the drift of tiny but frightening direct-action groups like the Weathermen into “urban guerrilla warfare” generated a powerful counter-current of hostility against American youth culture in general and young radicals in particular.
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Janet Morgan, Agatha Christie: A Biography (Collins: London, 1984), pp. 362–5. ©HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Reprinted by permission.
Cf. Galit Hasan-Rokem and Alan Dundes (eds.), The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1986).
B. Lacroix, L’historien au Moyen Âge (Institut D’Études Médiévales: Montréal and Paris, 1971), p. 17.
Arthur Marwick, The Sixties (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999), p. 666.
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Penguin Books: Toronto, 1987; originally published by Bantam Books, a division of Random House), p. 205.
From Jefferson’s letter to George Wythe in Gordon C. Lee (ed.), Crusade against Ignorance: Thomas Jefferson on Education (Teacher’s College Press: New York, 1967), p. 100.
Cited from F.G. de Fontaine, American Abolitionism from 1787 to 1861 (D. Appleton & Co.: New York, 1861), p. 52 in Louis Filler, The Crusade against Slavery, 1830–1860 (Harper: New York, 1960), p. 276.
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1980), p. 154.
Hayden White, “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact,” in Geoffrey Roberts (ed.), The History and Narrative Reader (Routledge: New York and London, 2001), pp. 221–36, here at p. 222. The original source of the essay is not given, cf. pp. xi–xii.
Achille Luchaire, Social France at the Time of Philip Augustus (trans. E.B. Krehbiel) (John Murray: London, 1912), p. 25.
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Dickson, G. (2008). Introduction. In: The Children’s Crusade. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592988_1
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