Chronological Period/1960's
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The Kennedy Detail: Jfk’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who
- Author: Blaine, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439192995
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$19.95 Add to cartThis indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, out… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270755
- Language: English
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At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
$25.00 Add to cartAt Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch’s magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized univers… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0684857138
- Language: English
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Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery
$29.99 Add to cartOn December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evi
- Author: Bugliosi, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 039332544X
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Add to cartMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- 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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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
$34.99 Add to cart“[A] splendid achievement, as powerful and exciting a book as one is likely to read this year….”–Barry Gewen, New York Times Book Review
“Gripping history.”–Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal
“[M
- Author: May, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0393322599
- Language: English
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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day
$18.99 Add to cartIn this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont c
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062444263
- 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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The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook: The Von Trapp Children and Their Photographs and Memorabilia
$34.95 Add to cartThe Sound of Music Family Scrapbook celebrates one of the best-loved musicals of all time, and the seven actors who played the Von Trapp children. It’s filled with their recollections of that magical
- Series: Y
- Author: Bronson, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1787391787
- Language: English
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A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
$18.00 Add to cartRotolo has written a moving account of the fertile years just before the circus of the 1960s was in full swing. She chronicles the backstory of Greenwich Village in the early days, when Bob Dylan was … [more below]
- Author: Rotolo, Suze
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0767926889
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of Camelot
$23.99 Add to cartA monumental work of investigative journalism from one of the greatest reporters in American history, revealing the Kennedy White House as never before.
In this widely acclaimed and bestselling book,… [more below]- Author: Hersh, Seymour M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0316360678
- Language: English
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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 King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 Add to cartThe essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy–Parting the Waters; Pillar o… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1451662467
- Language: English
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
$106.08 Add to cartDrawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it show… [more below]
- Author: Moyar, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0521869110
- Language: English
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
$16.95 Add to cartIn The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the “cultural revolution” of the 1960s and ’70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our inn… [more below]
- Author: Kimball, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1893554309
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$9.50 Add to cartGuerrilla Warfare is an epoch-making book by Che Guevara aimed to inspire thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries worldwide. Guevara believed that in the world of totalitarian regimes, wh… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 03 2022
- ISBN10: 8027343070
- 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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Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
‘A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve’ Simon Sebag Montefiore ‘Harrowing- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1408886367
- Language: English
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
$22.00 Read moreAs 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
