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Even though almost half a century has passed since the 1960s, it's a decade that continues to reverberate in our society, politics, culture and institutions to this very day. In many ways, America today is a product of the '60s. From civil rights to feminism to gay liberation to the environmental movement to the silent majority to a nation divided over Vietnam, what started back then has shaped and influenced our country ever since. To many, the presidency of Barack Obama symbolized the liberation movements of the '60s. But it's also important to ask how the '60s produced the presidency of Donald Trump. To understand America today, we must understand the lessons from the 1960s.

Leonard Steinhorn is a professor of public communication and an affiliate professor of history at American University. His expertise includes American politics, culture and media, strategic communication, the presidency, race relations, the 1960s and recent American history. He is author of The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, and co-author of By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. He has published in books, journals, The Washington Post, Salon, The New York Times, Politico, The Hill, International Herald Tribune, Huffington Post and History News Network, among other outlets, and he is the founding editor of PunditWire, where political speechwriters comment on the news.

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