1960s Books


The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman Versus Conspiracy Best Price: $22.76 The idea behind 2006's "JFK: The Assassination Debates" seems valuable and overdue: A...	Four Days in November: The Origin Coverage of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Best Price: $4.79 Good, but ULTIMATE SACRIFICE the best book ever While I thought this book was worthwhile in...	A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 Best Price: $7.51 I had to read this for my modern American grad history course. Not knowing who Paul Berman was,...	The Kennedy Assassination Best Price: $18.00 The Kennedy assassination has spawned its own conspiracy industry. Aptly described as a...	The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination Best Price: $13.25 Highly controversial indeed ! I totally agree with one of the reviewers here that it is rather...



Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties Best Price: $2.99 Written by a former radical, this criticism of 1960's radicalism describes what happens when...	Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty (None) Best Price: $37.58 In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to do something for...	The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Best Price: $2.86 Short, simple words are often the most powerful in the English language - words like...	Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut Jr. (Fire Ant Books) Best Price: $19.74 Black in Selma is an extraordinary book and gives the reader a superb mental depiction of Selma...	Berkeley at War: The 1960s Best Price: $19.78 Berkeley, California stood at the center of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that...



The Plot to Kill the President This is absolutely the most comprehensive and objective book on the assasination of JFK. Mr....	KENNEDY & NIXON: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America Best Price: $5.46 This book ties in perfectly with Theodore Whites 'The Making of the President 1960.' The...	To Reason Why: The Debate about the Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War Best Price: $33.62 Why did America become involved in the quagmire of Vietnam? These readings break new ground in...	Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 Best Price: $17.46 I bought this book thinking that it would reveal personal secrets and details of prominent...	The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, The Great Crises Best Price: $100.11 The most remarkable window that Americans have ever had into how their country is governed....

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King Best Price: $2.74 This reviewer is an avowed conspiracy/cover-up supporter regarding the 1960s assassinations of...	The Last Investigation Best Price: $6.00 This book is extremely well written, which is to be expected, I suppose, since Fonzi is, by...	Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America Best Price: $24.95 How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the...	The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years (Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Leadership Studies, No. 8) Best Price: $11.99	The '60s Experience: Hard Lessons about Modern America The 1960s have yet to be adequately explained. After a decade of "Sixties -bashing"...

Debating the Kennedy Presidency (Debating Twentieth-Century America) Best Price: $5.48 Debating the Kennedy Presidency examines the successes and failures of Kennedy's foreign and...	The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record Best Price: $22.49 Being Groden's follow-up to "The Killing Of A President", this book is a little anti...	Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy Best Price: $40.00 If you would like to spend about forty bucks for a book of fuzzy black and white photos about an...	Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors Best Price: $0.99 Marian Wright Edelman, in pleasing prose, shares the experiences she had growing up surrounded...	The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America Best Price: $0.40 I lived 68. I read every word. Brought me back and now I really miss those days. It was the...

John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap Best Price: $20.00 John F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency-as well as his success in reversing...	Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games Best Price: $30.58 Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world s most visible sporting...	Silencing the Lone Assassin: The Murders of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Best Price: $14.95 This book is a good introduction to the lone gunman theory and offers a reasonable but basic...	JFK: Breaking the Silence Best Price: $6.95 As confirmed to myself from the author, Bill Sloan, the unnamed agent at the beginning of the...	God's Long Summer Best Price: $17.94 There's a lot of in-bickering within the intellectual community as to the primary motivation for...

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 Best Price: $3.00 This is a terrific collection that must be listened to rather than read and that, in tracking...	Coup d'Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy This wonderful book grows from the photos of Dealy Plaza tramps on captured Nov. 22, '63. ...	Who's Who In The JFK Assassination: An A to Z Encyclopedia Best Price: $8.75 i keep this book right by my side and i read other books about the jfk assassination.when i come...	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader (Revised) (National Security Archive Documents Reader) Best Price: $26.55 The National Security Archive's "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962" is not for everyone. ...	Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $32.58 Just what would the government tell us at the brink of a nuclear war? I believe very little....

The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (Perspectives on the Sixties) Best Price: $23.95 John Andrew provides a much-needed history of the early 1960s and the development of Young...	Never Again!: The Government Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination Best Price: $29.95 As the leading civilian authority on the U.S. Secret Service (and President Kennedy's...	Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews Best Price: $72.63 I wanted to read this because my 5th grade teacher was on the wrong path and died in a gunbattle...	Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now (Viewpoints on American Culture) Best Price: $18.48 Growing up being picked on by a bully because he was 'smart,' Rigby of Pocatello, Idaho, led an...	The 60's Communes: Hippies and Beyond (Peace and Conflict Resolution) Best Price: $14.31 This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. The 1960's was a time...

Report to JFK: The Skybolt Crisis in Perspective (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) Best Price: $8.98 In March 1963, President Kennedy asked Richard E. Neustadt to investigate a troubling episode in...	Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case While I thought this book was worthwhile in many respects (I am mentioned on several pages, as...	The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism Best Price: $12.49 America does have a lot of culture though whatever culture you may find, it in all probability...	Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (Debating 20th Century America) Best Price: $19.95 Although obviously intended for use in the college classroom, Debating the 1960s is an absorbing...	Nasa, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination Best Price: $12.48 This book more or less covers topics instigated by the Elite that we all already know about. ...

Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs Best Price: $16.95 Collaboratively written by historians Warren Trest (USAF Historical Research Agency, Maxwell...	High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $3.89 I really enjoyed this book. It is an easy read and the author has done a great job in his...	The Big Story Best Price: $65.00 I just finished this book in the last couple of days. Excellent all the way through. Carefully...	Story That Stands Like A Dam Best Price: $21.95 Martin provides a thorough history of events leading up to the dam's construction as well as the...	Who Shot JFK?: A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories Best Price: $2.55 I'm somewhat of an aficionado of the Kennedy assassination. But you don't have to be one to get...

50 Ways to Fight Censorship: And Important Facts to Know About the Censors Best Price: $2.35 The question: can a ten-year-old topical reference still be relevant? The answer: in the case...	Interviews with Icons Best Price: $45.81 "Icons" is the real thing. It is filled with lively interviews of the people who...	Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's Best Price: $11.31 This book was first published in 1971 (not 1969, as another review mistakenly states). O'Neill...	The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam Best Price: $21.99 This is THE most thorough treatment of the Vietnam war's history from the perspective of the...	We'll Never Be Young Again: Remembering the Last Days of John F. Kennedy Best Price: $16.21 The collaborative effort of Chuck Fries, Irv Wilson, and Spencer Green, "We'll Never Be...

Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South Best Price: $28.63 Triumph of Goodwill is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the pivotal 1960...	The Jack Ruby Trial Revisited: The Diary of Jury Foreman Max Causey Best Price: $29.49 Max Causey was a 35 year old administrative engineer when he was drafted into the jury that was...

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