Chronological Period/1960's
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
$22.00 Add to cartThe true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the- Author: Ellsberg, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003425
- Language: English
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
$18.99 Add to cart“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency falt
- Author: Rieder, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1620400596
- Language: English
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
$19.99 Read more“If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, an… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 145552297X
- Language: English
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King
$33.95 Read moreThis comic is a unique testimony of resistance, tenacity and courage. A clear sample, that avoids falling into condescension, of the risky inconveniences and the very diverse obstacles that the Revere… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Ho Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 841676378X
- Language: Spanish
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
$17.99 Add to cartThis portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature “Gen黎.” Edited by Will… [more below]
- Series: Paris Journal #2
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 015670949X
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970: Vol. 10 Hardcover Edition
$29.99 Add to cartHe turns up first as Snoopy’s secretary, then gradually becomes a good friend whom Snoopy helps to fly South… but it’s not until June 22, 1970 that the little bird gains a name, in a perfect salute … [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560978279
- Language: English
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote’s “”Black and White Dance”” in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 047009821X
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Gates of Fire and Killing Rommel, the thrilling true story of one of the most unlikely and astonishing military victories in history.
June 5, 1967. Israel is surrounded- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1595231196
- Language: English
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Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
$26.95 Add to cartA prizewinning historian and journalist who has covered the pop music scene for more than three decades, James Miller brings a powerful and challenging intellectual perspective to his recounting of so… [more below]
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865602
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Add to cartTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
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March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
$24.99 Add to cartIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr… [more below]
- Author: Jones, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349411
- Language: English
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
$24.95 Add to cartIn Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge… [more below]
- Author: Shawcross, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 081541224X
- Language: English
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Spider Eaters: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartSpider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the C… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0520276027
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$29.99 Add to cartA graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam- Author: Mactavish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0809094959
- Language: English
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King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$29.99 Read more- Author: Anderson, Ho Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 17 2005
- ISBN10: 1560976225
- Language: English
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The New Breed
$10.99 Add to cartFrom the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young… [more below]
- Series: Brotherhood of War (Brilliance) #7
- Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0515092266
- Language: English
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California Girl
$15.99 Add to cartThe Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more–unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, whi
- Author: Parker, T. Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0061874892
- Language: English
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The Wanderers
$15.95 Add to cartA teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.
- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0395977746
- Language: English
