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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Boyle, Kevin, 1960– author.
Title: The shattering : America in the 1960s / Kevin Boyle.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021022377 | ISBN 9780393355994 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780393356076 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: United States—History—1961–1969.
Classification: LCC E841 .B694 2021 | DDC 973.923—dc23
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