Chronological Period/1960's
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The Making of the President 1968
$16.99 Add to cart“White unites a novelist’s knack of dramatization and a historian’s sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.” —Newsweek
The third book in Theodore H. White
- Series: Landmark Political
- Author: White, Theodore H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061900648
- Language: English
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Guts ‘N Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
$14.95 Add to cartStraight from college, to the US Army, to command pilot of a four ton gunship with a four man crew in Vietnam. From college chess games to a game of life and death. It was surreal to say the least. In
- Author: Garrison, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1629670537
- Language: English
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
$26.95 Add to cartIn this riveting collection, available for the first time in paperback, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period who were primarily responsible for the Ma
- Author: Truman, Harry S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245262
- Language: English
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Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War
$38.95 Add to cartNow, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his b… [more below]
- Author: Kissinger, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 074321532X
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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Popism: The Warhol Sixties
$16.99 Add to cartAnecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s.
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s–Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies–… [more below]
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031116
- Language: English
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Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most fascinating figures in Vietnam during the War was Pham Xuan An, a Time correspondent; and, unbeknownst to me and my colleagues who covered the conflict, a clandestine Vietcong agent.
- Author: Berman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0060888393
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
$18.99 Add to cartSELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and- Author: Stanton, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1476761949
- Language: English
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$28.00 Add to cartIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin “the most dangerous place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about.
Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin
- Author: Kempe, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0425245942
- Language: English
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during t
- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061571377
- Language: English
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
$18.99 Read more“Excellent social history…an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605715
- Language: English
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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood (Revised Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and so
- Author: Priore, Domenic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1908279907
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$24.99 Add to cartWritten immediately after the Cuban Revolution and first published in 1961, Guerrilla Warfare soon became a how-to manual for legions of guerrilla fighters around the world-from Latin America to Afric… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1607965682
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962: Vol. 6 Hardcover Edition
$29.99 Read moreLaunching into the 1960s, Schulz adds another new cast member. Two, in fact: The obnoxious Frieda of “naturally curly hair” fame, and her inert, seemingly boneless cat Faron. The rapidly maturing Sall… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1560976721
- Language: English
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
$18.99 Add to cartThe untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.
January, 1- Author: Kurlantzick, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1451667884
- Language: English
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How Apollo Flew to the Moon
$59.99 Add to cartStung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union – in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reach… [more below]
- Series: Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration
- Author: Woods, W. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 555
- Publish Date: August 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1441971785
- Language: English
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Owsley and Me: My LSD Family
$18.95 Add to cartOwsley and Me is an insider’s account of sixties counterculture, told by the partner of Owsley “Bear” Stanley.
- Author: Stanley, Rhoney Gissen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0983358931
- Language: English
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The 1968 Project: A Nation Coming of Age
$24.95 Add to cartIlluminates the extraordinary events of a pivotal year in America, with photography, eyewitness accounts, and iconic art and artifacts of the times.
- Author: Zellar, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 087351842X
- Language: English
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Abandoned in Hell: The Fight for Vietnam’s Firebase Kate
$18.00 Add to cartAn astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War
“A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once…and Young.”–Steven- Author: Albracht, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0451468090
- Language: English
