Chronological Period/1970's
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The Disco Files 1973-78: New York’s Underground, Week by Week
$39.95 Add to cartA new edition of the essential chronicle of disco culture
In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout
- Author: Aletti, Vince
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1942884303
- Language: English
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Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing
$21.00 Add to cartFrom surfer and writer Stuart Holmes Coleman, Eddie Would Go is the compelling story of Eddie Aikau’s legendary life and legacy, a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing, and an important chr
- Author: Coleman, Stuart Holmes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0312327188
- Language: English
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Judgment of Paris: Judgment of Paris
$18.99 Add to cartThe only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976–a blind tasting where a panel of esteemed French judges chose upstart California wines over France’s best–for the first time introduces … [more below]
- Author: Taber, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743297326
- Language: English
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Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam
$17.99 Add to cartHow two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.”–John McCain
Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vie… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0618562109
- Language: English
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No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel
$14.99 Add to cartNo Lifeguard on Duty is the ultimate memoir of sex, drugs, rock & roll, and redemption from modeling icon Janice Dickinson. From her supermodel glory days with Gia Carangi and Christie Brinkley to nig… [more below]
- Series: icon!t
- Author: Dickinson, Janice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0060009470
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0306926091
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Blind
$14.99 Add to cartParadise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through
- Author: Duong, Thu Huong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0060505591
- Language: English
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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
$16.99 Add to cartThe 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution–with a new Afterword by the author.
An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hook
- Author: Hollander, Xaviera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060014164
- Language: English
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
$20.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future. Dangerous, filthy, and fallin- Author: Dyja, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149795
- Language: English
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
$19.99 Add to cartUnder the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it’s never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavi… [more below]
- Author: Doe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825333
- Language: English
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The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World’s Fastest Stealth Jet
$50.00 Add to cartThe ultimate SR-71 book which profiles the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all 50 models in the SR-71 program.
At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Jo
- Author: Graham, Richard H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0760348499
- Language: English
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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
$19.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his
- Author: Higdon, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038494
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$24.99 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062405675
- Language: English
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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
$15.95 Add to cart“The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody–language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . N… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0393346005
- Language: English
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Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spiel… [more below]
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 4, 1999
- ISBN10: 0684857081
- Language: English
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The Jaws Log
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley’s number-one b
- Series: Shooting Script
- Author: Gottlieb, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 7, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062229281
- Language: English
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Pr
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction – A New York Times bestseller
“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of Books- Author: Coll, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0143034669
- Language: English
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Leroy Grannis. Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
$46.67 Add to cartAt a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it’s fitting to look back at the years that brought the sport into the mainstream. Developed by Hawaiian Islanders over five centuries ago, surfing be
- Author: Barilotti, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 3836566796
- Language: English
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To Kill the Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia
$32.00 Add to cartBasis for the motion picture Kill the Irishman with Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken. The the true story of fearless Irish-American racketeer Danny Greene, the Irishma
- Author: Porrello, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0966250869
- Language: English
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
$18.00 Add to cartThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compel… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593471083
- Language: English
