Chronological Period/1960's
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Csny, and the Lost Story of 1970
$16.99 Add to cartSet against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals … [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820722
- Language: English
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Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball — And America — Forever
$21.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season–when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by nati- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821834
- Language: English
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The Times They Were A-Changin’: 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn
$29.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics–for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.
If 1968 marked a turning point in a- Author: McElvaine, Robert S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1950994104
- Language: English
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Home: Social Essays
$20.95 Add to cart“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro–and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights–not conditional favors.” —New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered A
- Series: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354674
- Language: English
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Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
$32.57 Add to cartFew philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge as Michel Foucault (1926-1984). His work has influenced the teaching of any number of disciplines and rem
- Series: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844343
- Language: English
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
$29.95 Read moreBreach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Rider… [more below]
- Author: Etheridge, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0826521908
- Language: English
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
$24.99 Add to cartAt the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as “Tiger Force.” The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest so… [more below]
- Author: Sallah, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0316066354
- Language: English
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American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
$34.99 Add to cartIn his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conse
- Series: Pivotal Moments in World History
- Author: Cohen, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2016
- ISBN10: 019977756X
- Language: English
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962
$18.99 Add to cart“The life she describes is heroic…yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.”– San Francisco Chronicle
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary a
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929561
- Language: English
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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
$19.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Notable Book*
From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-
*A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year*- Author: Colt, George Howe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1501104799
- Language: English
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller about West Point’s Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
“A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical recon- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509122X
- Language: English
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967
$21.99 Add to cartDavid Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967.With meticulous and captivating detail, They March… [more below]
- Author: Maraniss, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: October 04 2004
- ISBN10: 0743261046
- Language: English
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
$70.82 Add to cartDrawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it show… [more below]
- Author: Moyar, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: March 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0521757630
- Language: English
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Into the Mouth of the Cat: The Story of Lance Sijan, Hero of Vietnam
$46.99 Add to cartOn the night of November 9, 1967, Sijan was ejected from his crippled fighter-bomber over the steep mountains of Laos. Although critically injured and virtually without supplies, he evaded capture in … [more below]
- Author: McConnell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0393018997
- Language: English
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Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what- Author: Powers, Francis Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574884220
- Language: English
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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
$18.95 Add to cartHow the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America’s racial divide
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Unio- Author: Buccola, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210772
- Language: English
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The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass
$15.95 Add to cartMyron Magnet’s The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today’s underclass-overwhelmingly urban, dismayingly minority… [more below]
- Author: Magnet, Mryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554023
- Language: English
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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation
$54.99 Add to cartThe technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft’s computer was required to be
- Series: Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration
- Author: O’Brien, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1441908765
- Language: English
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The Brilliant Disaster: Jfk, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs
$20.99 Add to cartA “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961.
At t- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1416596534
- Language: English
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Anthem (the Sixties Trilogy #3): Volume 3
$19.99 Read moreFrom two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, the remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he’s been drafted to fight i… [more below]
- Series: Sixties Trilogy #3
- Author: Wiles, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0545106095
- Language: English
