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Matthew Bowman
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023

The decade of the 1960s began with American society on a high. That high was reflected in the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a presidency which came to be called Camelot. The American social narrative at that time held that all problems, especially “racism,” could be solved through laws, direct action, and technology.