books about: 1960s     books:     1960s      Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Tom Brokaw Random House, 2007 Very Informative Book Since I was 15 in 1968 I came in on the very end of the Sixties. I learned that there was a whole lot more going on than I had realized. If you have a yearning to know what it was like, then do yourself a favor and read this. I found it very easy to read. You will ...             A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties Bill Eppridge Abrams, 2008 Memory Lane This book of pictures was a wonderful walk down memory lane for me. At 16 I was to join the Kennedy campaign as a volunteer after the California primary. On the morning I was to depart, my parents woke me with the news of his shooting. This book, however, reminded me ...             Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2008 Re: Excellent collection As with all the Library of America titles, this collection is superbly edited and presents the best available drafts of the selections. These selections, although less famous than the titles in the earlier Library of America volume, are still interesting, ...             Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years David Talbot Free Press, 2007 Historical AND Enjoyable If you're interested in conspiracy theories for the Kennedy assassination, this is probably not the book to read. However, if you're interested in the Kennedy administration itself, its key players and the various issues it dealt with, this is a must-read. Well written ...             Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Robert F. Kennedy W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 AS WE APPROACH IN HALF A YEAR THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS FBI ASSASSINATION LET US RECALL WHEN WISDOM AND DIPLOMACY RULED Here we have in Robert Kennedy's own account how the world kept out of annihilating nuclear warfare nearly a half century ago, rather than the current highly profitable rushes to war with untold, uncounted millions of innocent victims these past few decades. Here we ...             The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America Thurston Clarke Henry Holt and Co., 2008 What politics should be about One of the best campaign books I have ever read. As he did in "Ask Not," Thurston Clark brings out the back-story of a great moment in history. In this case, RFK's decision to run for president, despite his many misgivings about doing so. It chronicles his ...             Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein Scribner, 2008 Insightful history of the US 1955-1975 The book gives a detailed and insightful history of US politics 1955-1975, roughly the "Era of Nixon." Anyone who lived through those times, or anyone who is interested in the principal trends of American politics, will benefit from this analysis. It's really a very ...             Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation Sheila Weller Atria, 2008 Not a Boomer but definitely a fan... I couldn't put this book down. I'm a 29-year-old who has been a Joni Mitchell fan since early high school when one of my mom's friends turned me onto her. My life was never quite the same, of course, and I'm not sure I'd like to know who I might be without the ...             The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel Meg Waite Clayton Ballantine Books, 2008 Another Dimension to Sisterhood It is the Sixties in the Bay Area. Ah, this seems so familiar! As I read along about the five women who meet in the park every Wednesday, with their kiddies, the whole thing feels like it could have happened in my life. That's what is wonderfully cozy about this ...             Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ... Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2007 WHETHER FAN OR NEWBIE, THIS IS A MUST-HAVE The Library of America (LoA) has issued a volume of Philip K. Dick's novels from the 1960, and in so doing has legitimized PKD as a "classic" American author -- in this case an author of science fiction. You can get this volume by subscribing to the LoA, or by getting ...             America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Accurate, Comprehensive, & masterful Overview of the 1960s! It is often said that history is written by the victors, meaning, I suppose, that the particular interpretation recorded for posterity reflects the ideology and perspective of those dominating forces successful in the particular struggle a particular historical ...             Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream Doris Kearns Goodwin St. Martin's Griffin, 1991 "If it hadn't been for Vietnam"--- Goodwin takes on Lyndon Johnson in a biographical sketch that has a very familiar and intimate attachment for her. She served as an aide in his administration, 1967, and then later after him leaving office was asked to worked on his memoirs. There is no question that ...             1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies David Pietrusza Union Square Press, 2008 It was the election that would ultimately give America “Camelot” and its tragic aftermath, a momentous contest when three giants who each would have a chance to shape the nation battled to win the presidency. Award-winning author David Pietrusza does here for the 1960 presidential race what he did in his previous book, 1920: the Year ...             Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought) Michael Omi Routledge, 1994 First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed account of the theory of racial formation ...             Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor Harmony, 2007 Magic explained. I had heard tidbits about how Eric Clapton "stole" George Harrison's beautiful wife, Patti Boyd before, and I was curious about how that happened and...then what? Happily ever after? No, no. Patti gives us the whole story, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the ...          products you might be interested in search for books formation, fracturing, generation, nixonland, presidencies, reflections      toavi.com    web we recommend Magic explained. randomly chosen book: ^ Growing Artists: Teaching the Arts to Young Children