Chronological Period/1970's
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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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The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President
$30.00 Add to cartGeoff Shepard’s shocking exposé of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional staff to void Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection. Their success changed the course of American histo… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1642937150
- Language: English
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White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story
$19.95 Add to cartEx-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down T
- Author: Stanford, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936239906
- 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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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
$39.67 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian
A wide-ranging cultural and political history
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1595587071
- Language: English
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The Final Days
$20.00 Add to cart“An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)–from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men.
The Final Da- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743274067
- 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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Last Men Out: The True Story of America’s Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
$18.99 Add to cartA “thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss” (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the “gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975” (… [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 143916102X
- Language: English
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$22.00 Add to cartA passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harro
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312424302
- Language: English
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Why Intelligence Fails
$20.95 Add to cartThe U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that h
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Jervis, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0801478065
- 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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The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
$16.95 Add to cartBased in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people–among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn–this book … [more below]
- Author: Beeber, Steven Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1556527616
- Language: English
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
$20.00 Add to cartIn the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a pa
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0312334362
- Language: English
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Marina
$34.99 Add to cartCarlos Ruiz Zafon’s haunting gothic mystery, which has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller. “We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our sou… [more below]
- Author: Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0316044717
- Language: English
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
$16.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE
“Perkins’ richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has ne
- Author: Gardiner Perkins, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1728234611
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$50.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062405667
- Language: English
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
$21.99 Add to cartThe horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen’s reign of terror
As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the see- Author: Gilmour, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049489
- Language: English
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Kent State
$19.99 Read moreFrom two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Viet… [more below]
- Author: Wiles, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1338356283
- Language: English
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Hole in My Life
$14.99 Read moreFrom the Newbery Award-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, this is a memoir about becoming a writer the hard way. A Printz Honor and Sibert Honor book.
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an asp- Author: Gantos, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0312641575
- Language: English
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
$24.95 Add to cartLocated on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand’s capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the l
- Author: Maguire, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0231161352
- Language: English
