Chronological Period/1960's
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Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of Sog
$22.99 Add to cartMajor John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a “comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an impo… [more below]
- Author: Plaster, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1501183451
- Language: English
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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
$29.95 Add to cartJohn D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1478015926
- Language: English
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cart“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.” –H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
- Author: McMaster, H. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929081
- Language: English
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
$17.00 Add to cartOne of The Hollywood Reporter‘s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time
“Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life.” —Quentin Tarantino The New York Times bests- Author: Harris, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115030
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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Watchmaking
$85.00 Add to cartTwenty-eight years after its first publication, the best-selling Watchmaking continues to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among new generations of enthusiasts. As a supreme ma
- Author: Daniels, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0856677043
- Language: English
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Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$10.99 Add to cartDead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Melding the entirely true and t- Series: Norvelt #1
- Author: Gantos, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1250010233
- Language: English
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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
$19.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, a rollicking history of the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour –“A stunningly alive portrait of the 1960s and of two very different men who ‘refused to shut up’ and … [more below]
- Author: Bianculli, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1439101175
- Language: English
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History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
$13.99 Add to cartTurn back the clock with History Comics! In this graphic novel, experience the Stonewall Riots firsthand and meet iconic activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Three teenagers–Natalia, Ja- Series: History Comics
- Author: Bongiovanni, Archie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1250618355
- Language: English
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (National Book Award Finalist)
$17.99 Add to cartMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin’s award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 125018083X
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
$27.00 Add to cartThe 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s–and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”–… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0679602984
- Language: English
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Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
$24.95 Add to cartMany people do not understand why America lost the Viet Nam War. Author Cecil B. Currey makes one primary reason clear: North Viet Nam’s Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Victory at Any Cost tells the full … [more below]
- Series: Warriors (Potomac Books)
- Author: Currey, Cecil B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574887424
- Language: English
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Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
$55.00 Add to cartIn words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
In this incredible history, the wo- Author: Shames, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1419722409
- Language: English
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
$17.99 Add to cartOn September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing f… [more below]
- Author: McKinstry, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1414336373
- Language: English
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Read moreColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone
$28.00 Add to cartWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0307270807
- Language: English
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Chicano Movement for Beginners
$15.95 Add to cartAs the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus,
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Montoya, Maceo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1939994640
- Language: English
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The Cold Six Thousand: Underworld USA 2
$19.00 Read moreThe internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.
In this savagely audacious nov- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy #2
- Author: Ellroy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 037572740X
- Language: English
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Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle
$19.99 Read moreThe Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In S
- Author: Power, Declan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1504758722
- Language: English
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CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
$14.99 Read more“Readers who can’t get enough of speculation about the JFK and RFK assassinations should definitely give CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys] a read . . .”–Booklist
The US Central Intelligenc- Author: Nolan, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1634502736
- Language: English
