1960s Books


One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Best Price: $15.99 The new details uncovered by Mr. Dobbs makes this a "must purchase" for anyone...	The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America Best Price: $13.61 If I were rating Bobby, there aren't enough stars in the heavens to measure how I feel about...	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Best Price: $20.59 Perlstein is a scion of the 60s. Through reading a lot of newspapers and mining a lot of...	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Best Price: $7.45 Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of the most powerful most inspired...	Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Best Price: $8.28 Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw is a rather difficult work for me to assess as I have...



1968: The Year That Rocked the World Best Price: $7.90 Take your Websters dictionary, re-arrange the pages so there is no comprehensible order, place...	Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Best Price: $8.44 Given that this book is essentially covered by the reviews of its primary source...	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $7.30 Robert Kennedy's memoir gives not only a fascinating insight to this critical episode, but it...	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Best Price: $69.74 Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of...	Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood Best Price: $15.64 I generally don't care for large tomes that hope to explain Hollywood's workings to the general...



Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Best Price: $17.90 The good `ol Texas Oil Boys (increasingly invested in defense industries) want to control,...	April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America Best Price: $11.49 Dyson gives us a good work here, although not his best. He should have subtitled the work,...	Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam Best Price: $6.99 This book is a clear indictment of LBJ and his closest advisers on the policy on and war in...	Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream Best Price: $7.95 Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Johnson is not a lengthy tome, and it covers the life of one...	Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition) Best Price: $11.46 Delivered early. Great condition. Good delivery info provided. I'll do it again.

Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) Best Price: $8.99 This book is even better than the glowing reviews suggested. It's simply a masterpiece of...	The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s Best Price: $8.75 A vibrant and revelatory history of the liberal moment of the 1960s, one which argues that...	Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy Best Price: $11.95 As an avid researcher of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, I enjoyed Sullivan's chronology of...	The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy Best Price: $21.89 First of all I have not read a whole lot of books on the JFK assassination so I can not compare...	Edie: American Girl Best Price: $7.91 I believe this is a great book about Edie Sedgwick, it's very well documented and original, you...

Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History Best Price: $28.00 Let me try to be constructive without being overly critical in saying what this book, Larry...	In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S) Best Price: $18.25 Just when I thought I had read everything about the space program, French and Burgess have done...	Time 1968: War Abroad, Riots at Home, Fallen Leaders and Lunar Dreams - The Year that Changed the World (with CD) (Time) Best Price: $14.97 I purchased Time: 1968 with high hopes and great expectations of a book that would summarise a...	Hippie Best Price: $8.77 What is supposed to be a celebration of / tribute to hippies and 60s counter-culture turned out...	The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage Best Price: $12.52 This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Todd Gitlin's "The...

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy Best Price: $7.10 An excellent, sanely written overview of all the evidence concerning the Kennedy assassination. ...	Edie: Girl on Fire Best Price: $11.98 I loved this book. Edie Sedgwick really is about expression whether it's her clothes or her...	Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years) Best Price: $3.50 This is an intense book filled with many facts. Often far too many facts to process well and...	Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America Best Price: $3.91 A new slant on the differences between a new generation in politics and how not to use power.A...	High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $4.93 I really enjoyed this book. It is an easy read and the author has done a great job in his...

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam Best Price: $5.53 I give this book five stars because the writing was good and the revelations of historical...	An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, New and Updated Edition Best Price: $10.04 Edit of 8 May 08: Reverend Wright preaches in the negative, but this does not mean he is wrong,...	The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade Best Price: $18.58 No COINTELPRO? Debunking the American counter-culture is impossible without putting an electron...	High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Krushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $10.64 In these days of a proclaimed War on Terror, Frankel reminds us that the past was worse. In this...	"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader Best Price: $37.00 I had a friend who recommended this book to me and I love it. I was a teenager in Europe during...

Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare Best Price: $6.99 I purchased this book for my American Religious Diversity class and found that it gives you a...	They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 Best Price: $7.39 David Maraniss captures the reality of combat while illuminating the conflict at home. As a...	The Children Best Price: $10.69 The Children is David Halberstam's look at the college students who helped make the Civil Rights...	The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $8.49 Have you ever wondered what is being said behind closed doors, in those places where important...	At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years) Best Price: $10.88 All I can figure is that this book was researched by Taylor Branch and written by someone else -...

One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $8.85 This is a pretty essential book for understanding the Crisis as well as the Cold War and a real...	A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House Best Price: $23.99 I love reading and learning about Jackie Kennedy and feel she is the personification of...	The Sixties Best Price: $36.00 The Sixties, by Texas A&M University historian Terry H. Anderson, takes the reader on an...	1964-1965 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Best Price: $12.98 When the gates of the 1964?1965 New York World?s Fair swung open on April 24, 1964, the first of...	Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary Best Price: $12.20 On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. came to Indiana to campaign for the Indiana...

Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History Best Price: $3.99 Growing up in the 60's was a fun time. We were going to change the world. But the world was...	Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years Best Price: $2.45 If you're interested in conspiracy theories for the Kennedy assassination, this is probably not...	The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (American Century Series) Best Price: $8.50 Insightful, analytical and useful to the teacher of history - provides great information that...	Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $11.25 This book is another great addition to the Pivotal moments in American history series. This...	The Bay of Pigs (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $18.34 In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary...

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Best Price: $11.70 Going Down Jericho Road is an excellent history of the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis and...	JFK: The Cuba Files: The Untold Story of the Plot to Kill Kennedy (Secret War) Best Price: $10.32 Well-written, thoughtfully composed. If there's anyone left in the world who doubts a...	The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot Best Price: $0.50 The Kennedy Mystique is a wonderful book. My 7 year old Daughter likes to look at the pictures....	Deep Politics And The Death of JFK Best Price: $14.51 Along with Carl Oglesby's "The Yankee Cowboy War" and Michael Piper Collins'...	Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton Best Price: $13.08 I read this book in the 1970s, shortly after it came out in hardback. It was then and remains...

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