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Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents by Mikal Gilmore Publisher Comments The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond the Barricades: The Sixties Generation Grows Up by Jack Whalen Review "'The Big Chill' told only half the story of where Sixties activists ended up. Whalen and Flacks... honestly chronicle the other half." —Abbie... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning by Martha Tod Dudman Publisher Comments DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN? MARTHA TOD DUDMAN DOES. It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America by Steven M. Gillon Publisher Comments Traces the lives of six people born during the first decade of the baby-boomer generation, discussing how their experiences reflected the radically changing values, marketing practices, and historical events of the period. 40,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America by Steve Gillon Publisher Comments The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, form the single largest demographic spike in American history. Never before or since have birth rates shot up and remained so high so long, with some obvious results: when the Boomers were kids, American... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State by Norman Solomon Publisher Comments Blending personal history and social commentary, Made Love, Got War documents five decades of rising American militarism and the media 's all-too-frequent failure to challenge it. The author 's unique weave of personal narrative and historical inquiry... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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For the Hell of It: The Life and times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin Publisher Comments Drawing on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman, hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and former comrades, and careful scrutiny of FBI files, court records, and public documents, Raskin provides the best account we have of this... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right by Dominic Sandbrook Publisher Comments “Im mad as hell, and Im not going to take it anymore!” The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in the 1970s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. From the disgrace of Watergate to the humiliation of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War by Jessica Wang Publisher Comments "The powerful implications of [her] arguments make Wang's book essential reading for historians of science and for students of Cold War politics."--American Studies"A richly textured book that makes a valuable contribution to the literature of the period... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $62.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s (P.S.) by Judith Nies Publisher Comments At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Boom!: Talking about the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow with DVD by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of Americas premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties by Eugene Davidson Publisher Comments Eugene Davidson is the author of numerous books, including The Death & Life of Germany, The Making of Adolf Hitler, The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler, The Trial of the Germans, and The Nuremberg Fallacy, all now available from the University of Missouri Press.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (American Century) by David R Farber Publisher Comments In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement by Carl Oglesby Publisher Comments Features a first-person account of the organization Students for a Democratic Society, and describes the author's travels to Vietnam, his work on student volunteer initiatives, and his participation in the Chicago Seven trial.... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Turbulent Years: The 60s by Time Life Publisher Comments A series of books chronicling our lives in powerful time capsules, from the dawn of the century -- when horses outnumbered cars 21 million to 8,000 -- to its close.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin Publisher Comments As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In this riveting new biography, Jonah Raskin draws on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman; hundreds of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s by W T Lhamon Book News Annotation Examining the art, ideas, movements, technological innovations and cultural forms of the fifties--including rock & roll, bop, the blues and folk revival, Beat counterculture, Abstract Expressionism, the civil rights struggle--Lhamon discovers not a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater Publisher Comments In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost in the land of Oz :the search for identity and community in American life by Madonn Kolbenschlag Book News Annotation Using myth, fairy tale, and story, Kolbenschlag explores the ways in which culture, gender, relationships, and an outdated view of religion distort our understandings of ourselves and the society in which we live. Annotation c. Book News, Inc... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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