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Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader
by Tom Hayden  Publisher Comments "His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer Praise for Tom Hayden: "One comes away enthralled by Hayden's odyssey."-The Boston Sunday Globe From his earliest...
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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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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...
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Steal This Book
by Abbie Hoffman Publisher Comments A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman's puckish tone and became a cult classic...
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Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
by Edward D Berkowitz Publisher Comments In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and...
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Hippie
by Barry Miles Publisher Comments New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price. Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustratiosn and filled with the history, politics, sayings,...
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
by Roger Kimball Book News Annotation Managing editor of the and art critic, Kimball continues his tirade against the cultural revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. He argues that the upheaval caused by the war in Vietnam allowed the ideology of the counterculture to escape from its...
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The Great Boom, 1950-2000: How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society
by Robert Sobel Publisher Comments In The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into today's economic powerhouse. As...
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The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
by Gerard J. Degroot Publisher Comments andldquo;If you remember the Sixties,andrdquo; quipped Robin Williams, andldquo;you werenandrsquo;t there.andrdquo; That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perceptionandmdash;yet time has proven an equally...
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Hippie
by Barry Miles Synopsis Immersing you in the Hippie movement of the late 60s and early 70s, this title takes you through the fashion, philosophy, music, literature, films and politics of the Hippie ideal, tracing its growth from the Beats in the 1950s to the peace-demanding...
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America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon
by Mark Hamilton Lytle Publisher Comments Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate. In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Hamilton Lytle illuminates the...
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Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
by Marty Jezer Synopsis The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into...
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Great Boom 1950 To 2000
by Robert Sobel Publisher Comments In The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into today's economic powerhouse. As America's...
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Bringing the War Home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (04 Edition)
by Jeremy Varon Publisher Comments In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous...
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
by Maurice Isserman Publisher Comments America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the eraMaurice Isserman, a scholar of the Left, and Michael Kazin, a...
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Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s (American Ways Series)
by Kenneth J Heineman Publisher Comments What began at colleges in the sixties as a rejection of parental authority and the Vietnam War rapidly evolved into a social movement, one with lasting influences in diverse areas of American life. As anti-Communist and Great Society Democrats lost...
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Orange Sunshine: The Party That Lasted a Decade
by Jeremy Reed Publisher Comments "Until now the only true record we had of this amazing time was the music, the photos and our memories. Jeremy Reed's Orange Sunshinetakes a giant leap of faith that has succeeded in imaginatively recreating the times, and as such is an educative marvel....
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Heath Street Stories: A Look Back at 1950's Innocence in Suburban America
by Gehla S Knight Synopsis 1950, and the cookie-cutter houses in the slipstream of a paper mill promise new beginnings for the families moving to Heath Street. From the tragicomedy of Atom Bomb drills to the wonder of glitzy gadgetry, Dyanflow transmissions and automatic canasta...
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Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
by Norman Solomon Publisher Comments Like the rest of the baby-boom generation, Norman Solomon grew up in a nation of dazzling progress and ominous shadows. Behind the upbeat TV shows and glib optimism there lurked private anguish and the specter of nuclear holocaust. Young people...
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American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life)
by Kirsten Fermaglich Synopsis To a great extent, Holocaust consciousness in the contemporary United States has become intertwined with American Jewish identity and with support for right-wing Israeli politics -- but this was not always the case. In this illuminating study, Kirsten...
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