A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that...

"...A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical..."

The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John...

"...seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed..."

"...First published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes..."

“Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and...

"...to the fight for equality. Drawing on original archival research and more than sixty original oral..."

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society...

When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a...

"...cultural history . . ." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "[A] lovely madeleine of a book" (The New York Times) about the intertwined lives of the sixties' most gifted young foursome..."

The Beatles' evolution from a Liverpool rock and roll group into one of the 20th century's defining images has been repeatedly chronicled but rarely analyzed;...

The Casbah Coffee Club, which opened in Liverpool on August 29, 1959, was the brainchild of Mona Best, the mother of Pete Best. It is well known that Pete Best...

The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n’-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about...

"...in the counterculture of the 1960's, and, most convincingly, in the persons of Beatles Lennon and McCartney..."

A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age When Jean-Luc...

"...the director probably loved." In an eight-paragraph jaunt, the young writer lightly sketched..."

"...Review of first edition: "In tackling a highly sensitive and emotive issue, Riches presents a coherent and very readable account of the American Civil Rights movement."--Esther Jubb, American Studies Today..."

Combining the latest scholarship with John Kirk's informed commentary, this sourcebook throws a powerful light on the civil rights movement and its most...

Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive...

"...Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive.... Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War..."

The Vietnam War was a thirty-year conflict that actually included several wars, cost billions of dollars, resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and...

"...The Vietnam War was a thirty-year conflict that actually included several wars, cost billions of dollars, resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and.... The Vietnam War was a thirty-year conflict that actually included several wars, cost billions of dollars, resulted in thousands..."

Here is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It...

"...Here is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It.... Here is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It provides a critical historiographical review of the most current thinking and explains..."

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither,...

"...Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither,.... Once upon a time there was a war..."

The History of SDS as You’ve Never Seen It Before In 1962 at a United Auto Workers’ camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic...

"...when the state repression and militarism of the 1960’s and 70’s finds its closest parallel in the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, this accessible book maps out the legacy of resistance our generation has..."