1960s Books


The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Best Price: $2.00 This is the fourth book I have read on the RFK assassination. It is still the best. These...	Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report Best Price: $18.00 Very informative. This is an interesting angle to view the assasination. Detailed yet not...	Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? Best Price: $6.94 This chillingly true, first hand account of a court case in Florida (suppressed by the corporate...	Watergate Best Price: $3.84 This is a terrific look back on the Watergate scandal. Emery writes that his purpose is to tell...	Oswald Talked: The New Evidence in the JFK Assassination Best Price: $8.49 Each book I read on the assassination, I start to fill in more and more gaps pertaining to the...



Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (Jules and Frances Landry Award) Best Price: $19.75 Too often books come and go, getting barely a mention, then fading into obscurity. Others, such...	A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s Best Price: $29.95 A good overview of the differences between SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), YAK (Young...	The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution Best Price: $5.58 The editorial blurb provided here at Amazon states that the PHS was intended to...	The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 Best Price: $21.55 Donaldson's language is fairly simple and accessible, making this a fast read with a clear...	Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK Best Price: $3.12 I rate this book with five stars nor for what is says, but for what it does not say; not because...



1964-1965 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Best Price: $12.33 When the gates of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair swung open on April 24, 1964, the first of...	Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza Best Price: $11.95 Immediately upon reading this book I knew in my heart that the author had hit upon a highly...	The 60's: From Memory to History Best Price: $15.39 Anyone who lived through the tumult of the 1960s will enjoy this history focusings on the...	Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties Best Price: $16.23 This was really thought provoking and brought back many memories. That era is gone forever but...	Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, With a New Preface by the Author Best Price: $17.99 This is another history concerning the SDS, or the Students for a Democratic Society. Miller...

Charging Through the AFL: Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers' Football in the 1960s Best Price: $39.95 This book is a treasure if you were a follower of the AFL. And it does not matter what team you...	Taking Charge Best Price: $18.36 I'd have to imagine that writing a book like this is not as easy as some would assume; not only...	Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Critical Issue) Best Price: $4.99 As one of the previous reviewers have already noted, Dr. Hunt spends a lot of time telling us...	Of Kennedys And Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties Best Price: $16.50 An outstanding history of the Sixties by an outstanding public servant. Harris Wofford makes...	The '60s For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) Best Price: $3.52 Grasp the political, cultural, and social impact of the decade Experience the hope and...

All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s Best Price: $26.95 I thought this book was amazing and the author was simply wonderful. Thank you Elizabeth Cobbs...	1968: The Election That Changed America (The American Ways) Best Price: $14.45 This is a short book about an election that changed the course of politics in America. The...	Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s Best Price: $8.95 _Fire This Time_ (a play on James Baldwin's title _The Fire Next Time_) documents the history...	DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION: Second Thoughts About the '60s Best Price: $2.87 David Horowitz and Peter Collier would love for the people that read this book to consider...	The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future Best Price: $14.00 The author, a self admitted product of the 1960's left, keeps trying to attach evil intentions...

Timothy Leary: A Biography Best Price: $1.00 Reading this book one wonders two things. What did Timothy Leary do to Robert Greenfield, and...	Flashing on the Sixties Best Price: $12.30 If you weren't there when it was all happening, this wonderfully gifted photogropher was. ...	The Warren Commission Report: Report Of The President's Commission On The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy Best Price: $17.99 The Warren Report may very well be the most unfairly maligned document in U.S. History. Way too...	J F K: A Conspiracy of Silence (Signet) Best Price: $7.95 Chuck Crenshaw was a friend of mine at Parkland Hospital. We both were there at the time of the...	This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America) (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America) Best Price: $20.81 This Is Our Music , declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was...

The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X Best Price: $15.28 In the late 1960's, the Hollywood producer Robert Evans premiered the movie "The...	Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War Best Price: $0.01 The author somehow misses the intense war going between the C.I.A. and the State Dept. over...	The JFK Assassination: The Facts and Theories (Signet) Best Price: $10.95 As the leading civilian authority on the U.S. Secret Service (and President Kennedy's...	Best Evidence (Signet) Lifton's research is impeccable, and his conclusions both startling and obvious. He, and he...	Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties Best Price: $20.24 As a child of the Sixties the stories related in Time It Was are the stories of my youth. The...

Hal Lifson's 1966! Best Price: $14.00 Being a bit of a nostalgia freak, I have more than a few books highlighting 50s and 60s pop...	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Best Price: $12.79 "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"...	Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation Best Price: $19.95 I'm a VN vet from the early stages of the war - this book does not ring true with me - there are...	Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why Best Price: $18.75 What makes this book so great is its limited focus on the Warren Commission itself, and not...	The Sixties: Art, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade Best Price: $15.00

The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (The New American Nation Series) Best Price: $23.00 This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. The theme of Allen...	Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis (American Ways Series) Best Price: $10.18 In the wake of the Iraq invasion, it is wise to remember an international incident nearly 40...	Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s, An Oral History Best Price: $21.90 There are many hundreds of books about the 60s, and they vary in quality from inspired to inane....	13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings Best Price: $18.00 The book sucks as it is highly inaccurate. But, the DVD is good. Buy it used for the DVD and...	The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changes America Best Price: $6.98 Roger Kimball's acerbic wit and lively intellect make this book a pleasure to read. As Kimball...

Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America Best Price: $2.95 An enjoyable book on one of the most famous political speeches ever. It provides good insight...	Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files, and More New Evidence of the Conspiracy that Killed JFK Best Price: $21.86 Being (as you friends will know) a big armchair investigator of various mysteries, I finally...	Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are...	Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy Best Price: $3.85 First of all, let's get it out of the way. I really love the Kennedys. I enjoy most of the...	No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark Best Price: $10.98 Porambo's book, written during the late 1960's and early 1970's, provides a comprehensive...

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus I found this book to be on many accounts a very interesting account of the birth of modern...	At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965 Best Price: $6.40 I really wanted to enjoy this book, but sadly, I did not. Freeman's writing was extremely dry....	A Simple Act of Murder: November 22, 1963 Best Price: $1.80 There are many controversies about JFK's assassination, but the main controversy is about...	Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 Best Price: $13.10	Letters from Mississippi Best Price: $20.00 Not being born during the time of the civil rights movement all that I know is what I have...

Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam Best Price: $16.50 A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the...

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