The tumultuous decades of the 1960s and the 1970s were “strange times” in America: times of social unrest and cultural conflict, times of undeclared war and uncertain peace, times of gains in human rights and losses in human dignity, times of dead heroes and successful scoundrels. With precision and prescience Ronald Flowers penetrates the veil of myth and misinformation that already obscures our recent past, seeking the sense of these strange times for succeeding generations.