United States - Social conditions - 1960-1980
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Blood in My Eye
$22.95 Add to cartBlood In My Eye was completed only days before it’s author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, G… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, George L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: December 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121237
- Language: English
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1969: The Year Everything Changed
$24.95 Read moreWoodstock, the moon landing, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and more. A must-read for baby boomers and the generations that came after!
Here is a rich, comprehensive narrative, chroni- Author: Kirkpatrick, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1602393664
- Language: English
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We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf
$19.95 Add to cartWe Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insig… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803259859
- Language: English
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.
“I’ll be shocked if t- Author: Murray, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 29 2013
- ISBN10: 030745343X
- Language: English
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The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass
$15.95 Add to cartMyron Magnet’s The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today’s underclass-overwhelmingly urban, dismayingly minority… [more below]
- Author: Magnet, Mryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554023
- 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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Black Bourgeoisie
$19.99 Add to cartA classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Fr- Author: Frazier, Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832410
- Language: English
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Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
$20.00 Add to cartAt last, this is your story. You’ll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You’ll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change — to grow to your full potential. Ga… [more below]
- Author: Sheehy, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 034547922X
- Language: English
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
$24.99 Add to cartStuds Terkel’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives–and the inspiration for Barack Obama’s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century
“Reading these stories, I started to c- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1565843428
- Language: English
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MS Davis: A Graphic Biography
$24.99 Add to cartNAACP Award Nomination, Outstanding Graphic Novel 2023
In Ms Davis, the acclaimed French cartooning duo tell a story of this seminal, revolutionary, 1970s icon through an accessible graphic novel narra
- Author: Titeux de la Croix, Sybille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1683965698
- Language: English
