Chronological Period/1960's
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Watchmaking
$85.00 Add to cartTwenty-eight years after its first publication, the best-selling Watchmaking continues to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among new generations of enthusiasts. As a supreme ma
- Author: Daniels, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0856677043
- Language: English
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Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$10.99 Add to cartDead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Melding the entirely true and t- Series: Norvelt #1
- Author: Gantos, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1250010233
- Language: English
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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
$19.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, a rollicking history of the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour –“A stunningly alive portrait of the 1960s and of two very different men who ‘refused to shut up’ and … [more below]
- Author: Bianculli, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1439101175
- Language: English
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History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
$13.99 Add to cartTurn back the clock with History Comics! In this graphic novel, experience the Stonewall Riots firsthand and meet iconic activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Three teenagers–Natalia, Ja- Series: History Comics
- Author: Bongiovanni, Archie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1250618355
- Language: English
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (National Book Award Finalist)
$17.99 Add to cartMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin’s award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 125018083X
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
$27.00 Add to cartThe 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s–and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”–… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0679602984
- Language: English
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Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
$24.95 Add to cartMany people do not understand why America lost the Viet Nam War. Author Cecil B. Currey makes one primary reason clear: North Viet Nam’s Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Victory at Any Cost tells the full … [more below]
- Series: Warriors (Potomac Books)
- Author: Currey, Cecil B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574887424
- Language: English
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Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
$55.00 Add to cartIn words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
In this incredible history, the wo- Author: Shames, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1419722409
- Language: English
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
$17.99 Add to cartOn September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing f… [more below]
- Author: McKinstry, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1414336373
- Language: English
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Add to cartColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone
$28.00 Add to cartWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0307270807
- Language: English
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Chicano Movement for Beginners
$15.95 Add to cartAs the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus,
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Montoya, Maceo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1939994640
- Language: English
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The Cold Six Thousand: Underworld USA 2
$19.00 Read moreThe internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.
In this savagely audacious nov- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy #2
- Author: Ellroy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 037572740X
- Language: English
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Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle
$16.99 Read moreThe Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In S
- Author: Power, Declan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1504758722
- Language: English
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CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
$14.99 Read more“Readers who can’t get enough of speculation about the JFK and RFK assassinations should definitely give CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys] a read . . .”–Booklist
The US Central Intelligenc- Author: Nolan, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1634502736
- Language: English
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Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
$17.00 Read moreIn the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska’s Mount McKinley–known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down.
Andy Hall, a journalist
- Author: Hall, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0142181951
- Language: English
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The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After
$15.00 Read moreA gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred.
Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F.- Author: Bolden, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0307382028
- Language: English
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock
$16.95 Read moreExhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene’s roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of “new wave” in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes P… [more below]
- Author: Heylin, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1556525753
- Language: English
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The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1: 1958-1965
$29.95 Read moreThe Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1 includes eight plays from 1958-1965 by “a major American playwright who helped change the shape of drama here and abroad” (New York Times).
Edward Albee’- Author: Albee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1585678848
- Language: English
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Countdown
$21.99 Read moreThe story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman’s life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war.
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that’s hard to get when her best… [more below]
- Series: Sixties Trilogy
- Author: Wiles, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0545106052
- Language: English
