Chronological Period/1970's
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The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 – November 9, 1989
$21.99 Add to cart“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful to
- Author: Taylor, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062985884
- Language: English
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island
$23.99 Add to cartBy 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania perma… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0393324699
- Language: English
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreThe Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz‘s radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite g
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0816680817
- Language: English
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On Wings of Eagles
$18.00 Add to cart#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . .
W- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451213092
- Language: English
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The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana
$21.99 Add to cartThe evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and l… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Young, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143081
- Language: English
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Chickenhawk
$20.00 Add to cartA true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since i- Author: Mason, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035711
- Language: English
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The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine
$17.00 Add to cart“A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environme… [more below]
- Author: Olsen, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0307238776
- Language: English
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
$17.00 Add to cartA landmark history of post-punk, the basis of the documentary film directed by Nikolaos Katranis
Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division,- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143036726
- Language: English
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974–The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
$19.99 Add to cart“An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in Amer
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062899228
- Language: English
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
$19.95 Add to cartToday, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian D
- Author: Kaiser, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 16 2012
- ISBN10: 039334231X
- Language: English
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
$22.00 Add to cartAs selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Tr
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526788
- Language: English
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
$22.00 Add to cartThe true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the- Author: Ellsberg, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003425
- Language: English
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
$19.99 Read more“If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, an… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 145552297X
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970: Vol. 10 Hardcover Edition
$29.99 Add to cartHe turns up first as Snoopy’s secretary, then gradually becomes a good friend whom Snoopy helps to fly South… but it’s not until June 22, 1970 that the little bird gains a name, in a perfect salute … [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560978279
- Language: English
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Marina / Marina
$16.00 Read moreDel exitoso autor de La sombra del viento llega el intrigante misterio que lo inici? todo … “Todos tenemos un secreto enterrado bajo llave en el ?tico de nuestra alma. Este es el m?o”.
Cuando ?scar- Author: Zaf?n, Carlos Ruiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910585
- Language: Spanish
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The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978: Vol. 14 Hardcover Edition
$29.99 Add to cartAs the 1970s wind down, the last two recurring Peanuts characters have fallen into place: Snoopy’s brother Spike and the youngest Van Pelt sibling, Rerun. But that doesn’t mean Schulz’s creativity has… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 27 2010
- ISBN10: 1606993755
- Language: English
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
$22.00 Read moreThe basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the “definitive account of the Jonestown massacre” (Rolling Stone) — now available for the first time in paperback.
Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the s- Author: Reiterman, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 13 2008
- ISBN10: 1585426784
- Language: English
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
$24.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.
In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1476782423
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
