Chronological Period/1970's
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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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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown
$20.00 Add to cart“A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1416596402
- Language: English
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
$25.99 Add to cartRome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era. —Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay rit- Author: Rome, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0865477744
- Language: English
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Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
$19.95 Add to cartFive Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the “most significant half decade in the history of the game.” The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of … [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 413
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803259506
- 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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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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Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck
$15.95 Add to cartSuperior Never Gives Up Her Dead
On November 10, 1975, the massive ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald succumbed to a stormy Lake Superior, leaving no survivors. Memorialized in song and legend, the Fitzgera
- Author: Andra-Warner, Elle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0974020737
- Language: English
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Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime
$24.99 Add to cartBoston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating three-day rain delay. Tonight, at last, they will play Game Six of the World Series. Leading three g… [more below]
- Author: Frost, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1401310265
- Language: English
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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Blind Ambition: The White House Years
$24.99 Add to cartA six-month New York Times bestseller: “Not only the best Watergate book, but a very good book indeed” (The Sunday Times).
As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the- Author: Dean, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1504041011
- Language: English
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A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight to Bring Lolita Home
$21.99 Add to cartOn August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young w… [more below]
- Author: Pollard, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140376
- 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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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
$19.99 Add to cart“Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s deft weave of social history and sharp entertainment reporting explains how [The Mary Tyler Moore Show] made the world safe for Lena Dunham” (Peter Biskind, author of Eas
- Author: Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29, 2013
- ISBN10: 1451659229
- 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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Kim Jong-Il Production
$28.99 Add to cartAn Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction Selection
Library Journal Top Ten Book of the Year The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il’s kidnapping of the golden couple of South Korean Cinema, The Movi- Author: Fischer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1250054273
- Language: English
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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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The Tarboro Three: Rape, Race, and Secrecy
$18.00 Add to cartOn an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives were changed dramatically as the ensuing eve
- Author: Lampkin, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1732932808
- Language: English
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First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
$25.95 Add to cartWhen Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the … [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Disher, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1591142164
- 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
