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The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy
by Leonard Steinhorn  Publisher Comments A look at the contributions of the Baby Boom generation describes how, with their involvement in the civil rights movement, protesting Vietnam, advocating women's and gay rights, and pursuing Watergate, they became in many ways as great if not a greater...
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A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History
by Dominick J Cavallo Publisher Comments Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white, and college educated. Perhaps none...
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Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning
by Martha 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...
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Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace (Harvest Book)
by David Beers Publisher Comments Beer’s “important...fascinating” book(Los Angeles Times) shows how suburban California came to epitomize the american Dream-until its affluent complacency was shattered by downsizing, anxiety, and distrust....
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Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution
by Margot Adler Book News Annotation This memoir unfolds along two unique coming-of-age paths: the correspondence between a Berkeley antiwar activist, now the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and authority on feminist spirituality, and an American soldier in Vietnam in the...
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Farm Friends
by Tom Fels Publisher Comments Farm Friends is a memoir and a study of the generation of the 1960s. Beginning on a communal farm in 1969, it continues as a personal chronicle of the author and his extended family up to the present day. From the greenhouse in the spring to haying in...
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Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History)
by Michael W Flamm Synopsis Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960s. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of...
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America in White, Black, and Gray: A History of the Stormy 1960s
by Klaus Fischer Synopsis The stormy 1960s unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war terror, the Vietnam War, counter-cultural protests, controversial social...
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the '60s
by Peter Collier Synopsis Destructive Generation is the untold story of the 1960s-the tragic consequences of everything-goes hedonism and the destructiveness of revolutionary passion that typified the attitude of many young radicals. Destructive Generation, which critics have...
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Wallowing in Sex : the New Sexual Culture of 1970S American Television (07 Edition)
by Elana Levine Synopsis Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in...
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Split: A Counterculture Childhood
by Lisa Michaels Synopsis In this "disarmingly amiable reminiscence" ("The Atlantic Monthly") that "may be the best argument for the left since Marx" ("The New Yorker"), poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as...
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Jesus Sound Explosion
by Mark Curtis Anderson Publisher Comments This is a humorous and touching account of growing up conflicted as the son of an evangelical preacher and an avid fan of rock & roll....
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Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement
by Carl Oglesby Publisher Comments In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. Oglesby's report argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable. He had...
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The fifties
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles...
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Cold War and the University : Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years (97 Edition)
by Chomsky And Katznelson / Lewontin / Nader / Ohmann / Siever / Wallerstein Synopsis The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The essays in this text show the many ways existing disciplines were affected by the Cold War ethos, and discuss the rise of...
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
by Elaine Tyler May Publisher Comments In the 1950s, the term ”containment” referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the ”sphere...
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Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s
by Nora Sayre Synopsis Nora Sayre, author of Sixties Going on Seventies and a National Book Award nominee, continues to explore our century's history as she turns her witty, insightful eye on the dramas of the 1950s. The major figures of the Cold War landscape, such as J...
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The dream and the nightmare :the sixties' legacy to the underclass
by Myron Magnet Book News Annotation Magnet decries the cultural and political views that absolve individuals of responsibility for their status as members of the underclass. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Reclaiming Democracy: The Sixties in Politics and Memory
by Meta Mendel-reyes Publisher Comments Reclaiming Democracy combines personal experience with a brilliant political and historical analysis, while challenging a wide range of sixties observers from George Will to Oliver Stone. In a time of cynicism about the American government's ability to...
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Younger Than That Now: A Shared Passage from the Sixties
by Jeff Durstewitz Synopsis He lived in New York and she in Mississippi. Neither irate parents nor the glint of a deputy's pistol would keep them from meeting. That visit was the beginning of a friendship that, despite time's passing and the gulf of distance, would sustain them...
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