books about: nineteen     books:     Nineteen      1968: The Year That Rocked the World Mark Kurlansky Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Awesome Mark Kurlansky's 1968 is a well-researched and surprisingly balanced account of 1968 and the preceding years. Kurlansky combines stories with accurate generalizations about the motivations of the time. He does not minimize the motivations, however. He recognizes the ...             1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell New American Library, 1961 Big Brother is watching you! "1984" is George Orwell's warning of the dangers of a totalitarian society. The main character in the novel, Winston Smith, is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in the country of Oceania. Winston and his fellow citizens are monitored everywhere they go, even in ...             Indignation Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, 2008 Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg ...             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 ...             "Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Indispensible Probably the best collection of primary documents relating to the period that's yet been published. An invaluable collection that's of use not only to scholars of the era, but to anyone with any interest at all in the 1960s, the political and social changes wrought ...             A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Suze Rotolo Broadway, 2008 A beautiful memoir that stands on its own In A Freewheelin' Time, Suze Rottolo pens a beautiful and nuanced portrait of Greenwich Village in the `60s. Her position was a unique one, as she was Bob Dylan's girlfriend during his sudden rise to fame, but the book is much more than just an after-the-fact tell-all. ...             The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics Bruce J. Schulman Da Capo Press, 2002 Entertaining Read! The problem with books recording the history of pop culture America is that there are too many of them, all with similar themes and layout. This makes a reader choice a bit complicated. This Schulman work is by and large a god work. It captures the spirit of the ...             1984 (Cliffs Notes) Nikki Moustaki, Gilbert Borman Cliffs Notes, 2000 A tremendous help As an English teacher, I really hate it when my students read the cliff notes instead of the book, but I do believe well-written Cliff notes can dramatically increase a student's understanding of a book by introducing ideas, concepts, and symbols the student might have ...             Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell Plume, 2003 Forget WE, The Iron Heel and every other dystopian novel. Read this book! Put simply this is the greatest work of dystopian literature ever created. It's not filled with useless details like Atlas Shrugged and is more vivid than anything Huxley or London have ever created.Nineteen Eighty- Four shows the ultimate consequences of government ...             Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult Washington Square Press, 2008 Tough to read, tough to put down This is a story about cruelty and evil. Since it's about a school shooting, you'd assume the bad guy is the one with the guns. Think again. What the shooter does is unforgivable, killing 10 kids and hurting many more. But he acts more as a reaction to cruelty and ...             An Absolute Scandal: A Novel Penny Vincenzi Doubleday, 2008 Intrigue, drama, and an infamous insurance scandal Bear with me for a moment, for a history refresher course for those who don't remember (or weren't acutely aware of) the scandal that hit famous British insurance agents Lloyd's of London back in the late 1980s. Lloyd's insurance policies (perhaps most famous to ...             Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins HarperTrophy, 2008 An enchanting novel Criss Cross is a wonderfull book of friendship, self-realization, and growing up. It is printed in many different ways and forms that make it fun to read. I must be honest in saying it is sometimes a bit confusing, but you always get caught up later on in the story. ...             Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II David Stafford Little, Brown and Company, 2007 Excellent history of an overlooked period As the author notes, many know the war in Europe ended with the surrender of Germany on 7 May, but in reality the shear inertia of the war meant the dying and some of the fighting continued. On top of that, the problems created by the war only began. Hundreds of ...             Radio Golf August Wilson Theatre Communications Group, 2008 Radio Gulf by August Wilson This is a proper finale to Wilson's century cycle, I read this play and the nine others as part of a college class and it wraps up the saga with Wilson's usual brand of honesty that makes his work so compelling. It speaks with sharp tongue about the ills of the black ...             The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics) Penguin Classics, 2002 A True Reader! I found this to be an exellent primer on the 60's. Not only are many of the big names covered like MLK, Timothy Leary, and Hunter S. Thompson but lesser voices are heard too. I also enjoyed the divisions of the book into sections like Civil Rights, Counter Culture, ...          products you might be interested in search for books eighty-four, freewheelin, greenwich, indignation, reflections, seventies      toavi.com    web we recommend Big Brother is watching you! randomly chosen book: Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide (Bpg-Other)