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Out of the Sixties: Storytelling & the Vietnam Generation
by David Wyatt  Synopsis In a highly original study, David Wyatt takes a broad, yet personal, look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War. Wyatt argues that it is each artist's 'personal engagement' with his own...
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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...
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The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960's
by David Lance Goines Book News Annotation The still-rousing (if increasingly gray-haired) story of the first baby-boomer civil protest, the progenitor of the antiwar and civil rights movements, the catalyst of 60s activism. Tells how it changed the university and ultimately the nation as its...
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In Praise of Decadence
by Jeff Riggenbach Synopsis With a delightfully refreshing libertarian sense of the political right and left, Riggenbach exposes the myths and misinterpretations surrounding anarchism, liberalism, populism, and conservatism, as well as the term "decadence", which so many have used...
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For the Hell of It: 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...
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His Son: A Memoir
by Bill Henderson Synopsis Bill Henderson did most of his growing up in the decade of the tail-finned car, Eisenhoer rock and roll the threat of atomic annihilation and pervasive silence. This anguished yet loving portrait of a child of the fifties and his father reveals the...
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Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture
by Andrew Hurley Publisher Comments The years immediately following World War II witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by postwar prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon were the new currency in this revitalized consumer...
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The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
by Robert Cohen Publisher Comments This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways...
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How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse)
by David Frum Publisher Comments For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A...
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Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege
by Richard A Siggelkow Synopsis The decade of the sixties is generally presented in film and television as the epitome of youthful idealism, yet it was a period scarred by tragedy: the assassinations of beloved national leaders, battles for civil rights, the war in Vietnam, and violent...
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The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties: With a New Afterword
by Daniel Bell About the Author Daniel Bellis Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, <>Harvard University....
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Our War What We Did in Vietnam & What It
by David Harris
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New York in the Fifties
by Dan Wakefield
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Too Good to Be Forgotten: Changing America in the '60s and '70s
by David Obst
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Night Flight To Hanoi
by Daniel Berrigan
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Rebels with a Cause: A Collective Memoir of the Hopes, Rebellions, and Repression of the 1960s
by Helen Garvy
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Sights on the Sixties (Perspectives on the Sixties)
by Barbara L Tischler
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Goat Brothers
by Larry Colton
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The Haight-Ashbury: A History
by Charles Perry
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Coming apart :a memoir of the Harvard wars of 1969
by Roger Rosenblatt
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