1960s Books


Kennedy Contract: The Mafia Plot to Assassinate the President Best Price: $69.94 In 1979, after a wide-ranging two-year investigation, the House Select Committee on...	Shaky Ground Best Price: $6.25 Echols upends many of our bedrock assumptions about American culture since the 1950s,...	There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence Best Price: $12.53 Mediocre reportage with no particular insights into the FBI Cointellpro program. History the way...	This Is America?: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas Best Price: $21.92 I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas in the '60s, and attended the University of Kansas during the time...	The Free Men Best Price: $13.18 Read The Free Men if you want to know what the civil rights struggle of the 60s was like, away...



The 1960s Cultural Revolution (Greenwood Press Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century) Best Price: $39.99 Progressing at a dizzying, frenetic pace, the 1960s were synonymous with rebellion and conflict....	Their Darkest Day: The Tragedy of Pan Am 103 and It's Legacy of Hope Best Price: $7.73 We have forgotten the legacy of Pan Am 103 Lockerbie crash where 259 passengers and crew members...	Lbj's Texas White House: "Our Heart's Home" Best Price: $16.63	Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today Best Price: $3.42 >Book Review > >Following Our Bliss >By Don Lattin >Harper, San Francisco ...	Nasa, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination Best Price: $10.20 This book more or less covers topics instigated by the Elite that we all already know about. ...



Debating the Kennedy Presidency (Debating Twentieth-Century America) Best Price: $5.38 Debating the Kennedy Presidency examines the successes and failures of Kennedy's foreign and...	The Kennedy Wit/the Humor and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy Best Price: $40.65 "The Kennedy Wit" is an entertaining collection of witty statements by JFK. Organized...	Government for the People: Reflections of a White House Counsel to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson Best Price: $29.95	Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations With Those Who Shaped the Era Best Price: $55.81 This book taught me so much about the dreaded and lionized radicals of the '60's. It is...	Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement Best Price: $52.88 Just finished reading " Deep In Our Hearts", a book I'd like to strongly recommend. ...

Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty (None) Best Price: $37.87 In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to do something for...	Oswald Talked: The New Evidence in the JFK Assassination Best Price: $8.19 Each book I read on the assassination, I start to fill in more and more gaps pertaining to the...	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...	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader (Revised) (National Security Archive Documents Reader) Best Price: $26.03 The National Security Archive's "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962" is not for everyone. ...	Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now (Viewpoints on American Culture) Growing up being picked on by a bully because he was 'smart,' Rigby of Pocatello, Idaho, led an...

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream	On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy I've read several books relating to the conspiracy surrounding the murder of JFK. This is one...	Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town Having been a professor of Race Relations and Minority Peoples at an African-American College...	Sixties People For about half of this book, the authors do a good job of explaining some of the subgroups of...	The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood Neighborhoods are created by groups of individuals, usually of the same ethnic background. How a...

The Man on the Grassy Knoll I have read a lot of books on the JFK assissination. This book caught my eye for that reason....	Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America Whereas much of the writing in cultural studies comes from a radical left-wing agenda, Cyndy...	Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews I wanted to read this because my 5th grade teacher was on the wrong path and died in a gunbattle...	Who Killed JFK? (The Real Story Series) Of the several hundred books out there on the events surrounding the assassination of John...	Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing I'm too young to have ever seen a nuclear test, but wish I could have. The book covers all the...

Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created The Sixties Counterculture That Changed America Best Price: $6.81 A great collection of tales from "the greater generation" Peter O. Whitmer is a...	Taking Back the Academy!: History of Activism, History as Activism Best Price: $24.36 Taking Back the Academy! is not only an historical look at activism on campus since the 1960s,...	Moon Landings: Did NASA Lie? (An Orbis Enigma Book) Best Price: $19.27 This book shows the laziness in students learning basic physics. Secondly it shows someone...	The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent Best Price: $19.98 The result is a terrific and important book... It's important because it is history and the...	The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 Best Price: $22.00 Though the author only deals with a narrow focus on "our" missiles and their effect on...

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...	Decision for Disaster: The Battle of the Bay of Pigs This book detailed what actually happened during the Bay of Pigs incident. The author is one of...	American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War Best Price: $13.35 It has been said that the study of history represents at once both an exercise in pure...	Turning Point: 1968 Best Price: $23.94	History Will Not Absolve Us : Orwellian Control, Public Denial, & the Murder of President Kennedy Best Price: $86.00 The thrust of History Will Not Absolve Us though is not so much sifting through the considerable...

The Algiers Motel Incident Best Price: $2.52 As the wife of one of the police officers in the book, I can say that this is pure fiction....	Kennedy in Berlin (Publications of the German Historical Institute) Best Price: $4.45 For the first time, a book tells the story of John F. Kennedy's spectacular visit to Berlin in...	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...	From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it Best Price: $13.95 The best, first-person accounts of the critical changes of the 1960s. Especially impressive...	The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality Best Price: $0.01 An interesting look at the junior JFK and how he shaped his view of the Black community and his...

The Sixties: Art, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade Best Price: $15.00	The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties Best Price: $4.84 I saw this book at the university library and I like it. I'll use it as one of my sources...	Heretic's Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution Best Price: $13.00 Margot Adler is what's known in some circles as a "VIP" (Very Important Pagan), and...	Dear Donna, It's Only 45 Hours from Bien Hoa: Stories from the Vietnam War Best Price: $6.98 Well written book! While it is a work of fiction, it is very fact based, and has reminded me of...	The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman Versus Conspiracy Best Price: $11.41 Who killed JFK? Ever since that fateful day in Dallas, theories about President Kennedy's murder...

Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963 Best Price: $29.31 The first major reassessment of John F. Kennedy's foreign policy since his death, this volume of...	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...	Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy Best Price: $7.45 Debate about the 60's continues in this noisy and intelligent book of essays by nine prominent...	Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are...	Oswald and the CIA Best Price: $12.72 This is one of the most exhaustive collections of information and data regarding the JFK...

On the Walls and in the Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s Best Price: $17.24 If you ever wanted to enter the treasure troves of a rare manuscript collection, you can now...	What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s (What They Didn't Teach You) Best Price: $5.49 Summary: Like a bag of junk food - high in fat, low in nutrition, but you just can't put it...

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