Anderson, Terry H.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.484 AND

Brill, Steven

Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BRI

Brokaw, Tom.

Summary: Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.92 BRO

Murray, Charles A.

Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MUR

Witcover, Jules.

Summary: Presents a recap of the year 1968 month by month to demonstrate that 1968 was a cataclysmic year of turmoil and violence, presidential surprises and escalating war, that set Americans on a course of disappointment, racial division, and distrust of its leaders that persists today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 WIT

Berkowitz, Edward D.

Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER : In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only saw long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 BER

Gitlin, Todd.

Summary: "Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade-- a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. Part critical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 GIT

Moretta, John

Summary: "Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact on American society. The entrenched institutions within the political and cultural establishments that the hippies challenged, or abandoned, mainly prevailed. Yet the nonviolent, egalitarian principles of the movement, underpinned an era of civic protest that brought an end to the Vietnam War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 MOR

Kaiser, Charles

Summary: 1968 was the year that defined the decade--Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, unprecedented antiwar riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam changed the course of the war. With this political unrest came a breakthrough of American counterculture into the mainstream led by students and protesters alongside the voices of Aretha...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.923 KAI

Kaiser, Charles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988

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Wright, Mike

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.923 WRI

Sandbrook, Dominic.

Contents: Washington, D.C., August 1974 -- Conspiracy theory -- If he's so dumb, how come he's president? -- Archie's guys -- The porno plague -- Interlude: Born to run -- Let's look ferocious -- Southie won't go -- Redneck chic -- The man of a thousand faces -- Interlude: TV's super women -- The weirdo factor -- Reagan country -- The Jimmy and Jerry show -- Washington, D.C, January 1977 -- Mr. Carter...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 SAN

Killen, Andreas.

Contents: Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KIL

Titeux de la Croix, Sybille

Summary: "In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, ANGELA TIT

Wolf, Naomi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 WOL

Schultz, Kevin M.

Summary: "A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr., were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the1960s: the counterculture, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the two were close friends and trusted confidantes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SCH

Summary: Tells the story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM, set against the dazzling and profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in Boston and nationally during the late '60s and early '70s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2022

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WBC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WBC

Summary: A look at what happened during the anti-war protest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the subsequent trail brought against the protest organizers by the city. Includes animation, archival footage, and music from today's artists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHI

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A & W Publishers 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 AME