Chronological Period/1960's
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The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions
$16.99 Add to cart“A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else c
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0062375121
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
$18.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried
“One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.”
—Minneapolis Star and- Author: O’Brien, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0767904435
- Language: English
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If Only
$12.99 Read moreOriginally titled Grace, this award-winning novel gets a brand-new look in this beautiful repackage.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise comes- Author: Evans, Richard Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1481448536
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
$25.99 Add to cartAn excellent book by a genius,” said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.
“This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years f
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429126
- Language: English
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
$19.99 Add to cart“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be pre
- Author: Stewart, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062313177
- Language: English
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A Death in Belmont
$18.99 Add to cart“Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.” –New York Times Book Review
In the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestsell
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0060742690
- Language: English
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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 mo… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1501106309
- Language: English
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Elvis Speaks: Thoughts on Fame, Family, Music, and More in His Own Words
$30.99 Add to cartElvis Presley spoke to a whole generation of people through his music. Whether it was a ballad, a gospel hymn, or pure rock’n’roll, when he sang, people listened. However, there was more to Elvis than
- Author: McKeon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 1581823940
- Language: English
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the most acclaimed books of our time–the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel Jo- Author: Sheehan, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724141
- Language: English
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Mississippi River Festival
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville initiated a remarkable performing arts series called the Mississippi River Festival. Over 12 summer seasons, between 1969 and 1980, the festival pres… [more below]
- Author: Bahr-Evola, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1531624936
- Language: English
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
$24.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0684848090
- Language: English
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Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
$16.99 Add to cart“Reads like a John Grisham thriller crossed with an Oliver Stone movie.”–Boston Globe. “This is a must-read.”–Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy. “A fascinating story.”-… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1510708928
- Language: English
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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
$20.00 Add to cartFew stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
Dubbed the Hippie Mafia, the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a smal- Author: Schou, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0312607172
- Language: English
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Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez’s Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Beh
$18.00 Add to cartThe true story of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeant’s heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War,
- Author: Blehm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0804139539
- Language: English
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
$31.99 Add to cartNo other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the … [more below]
- Author: Fursenko, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317900
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Detail: Jfk’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who
- Author: Blaine, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439192995
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$19.95 Add to cartThis indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, out… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270755
- Language: English
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At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
$25.00 Add to cartAt Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch’s magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized univers… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0684857138
- Language: English
