Chronological Period/1970's
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The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
$19.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, the inside story–from the organizer himself–of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account that brings the reader behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas th… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302664X
- Language: English
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Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley
$21.99 Add to cartMore than four decades after it occurred, the murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley remains notorious… and unsolved.
The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Randall, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 24 2016
- ISBN10: 1467118818
- Language: English
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SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam
$17.00 Add to cart“The most comprehensive examination of widespread covert American actions during the Vietnam War.”–Kirkus Reviews
Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite U.S. mil- Author: Plaster, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 045123118X
- Language: English
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When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks–part autobiography, part sports… [more below]
- Author: Araton, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0061956244
- Language: English
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
$28.00 Add to cartGlamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up
Required to have a college education, speak tw- Author: Cooke, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0358251400
- Language: English
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Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women’s Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981
$24.95 Add to cartAs the popularity of women’s basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today’s Women’s National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years e… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Karra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803287895
- Language: English
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Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
$12.00 Add to cartInitially published on the twentieth anniversary of his death, this candid book reveals new information on the breakup of the Beatles, fellow musicians such as Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Lennon… [more below]
- Author: Wenner, Jann S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: December 17 2012
- ISBN10: 185984376X
- Language: English
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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
$33.99 Add to cartSan Diego’s unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of “low and slow.” Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighb… [more below]
- Author: Pulido, Alberto Lopez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1540215865
- Language: English
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
$16.99 Add to cartThe thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko — improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.
In 1978, CIA maverick J- Author: Russo, Gus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1538761335
- Language: English
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992
$39.95 Read moreThe inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Houston, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803269374
- Language: English
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In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains
$16.95 Add to cart2016 Nebraska Book Award
In Cold Storage is an excellent history of one of the more sensational crimes in Nebraska history.— Steven Guenzel, Nebraska HistoryIn 1973 the small southwest Nebraska rail
- Series: Law in the American West
- Author: Hewitt, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803256639
- Language: English
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Lions of Medina: The Marines of Charlie Company and Their Brotherhood of Valor
$18.00 Read more“A stirring tribute to the valor of Marines in Vietnam.”–Nathaniel Fick, New York Times bestselling author of One Bullet Away
Thursday, October 12, 1967: Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Cahill stepped o- Author: Glass, Doyle D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0451224086
- Language: English
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White House Diary
$38.99 Add to cartThe edited, annotated New York Times bestselling diary of President Jimmy Carter–filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues th
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312577192
- Language: English
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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
$19.00 Add to cartPrior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South
- Author: Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307388506
- Language: English
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S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones
$21.99 Add to cart“One of the greatest rock books ever written.” — GQ
Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones swept America, taking Exile on Main Street to Main Streets across the nation. Everyone held their breath to s- Author: Greenfield, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811995
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
$40.99 Add to cartIn Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Te… [more below]
- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199322260
- Language: English
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lon… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743287169
- Language: English
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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
$32.99 Add to cartBy drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietnam War (1975), Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on beh… [more below]
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: July 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0743249119
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Read moreIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
$24.99 Add to cartThe definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.
On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Pa- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0316245399
- Language: English
