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62) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brill believes that over the last half-century America's core values-- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself-- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. In examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, he answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way?...
64) Wanda
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wanda is a maladjusted, troubled woman who leaves her husband with whom she readily agrees to leave the children. She attaches herself to a small-time thief because he at least seems to need her a little. The thief finds her a useful accomplice and plans a bank robbery. It fails, he is shot, and Wanda is alone again"--Film Index International.
Publisher
New Yorker Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (84 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts Allen Ginsberg, an American poet and social activist in the different decades of his life and activities; the director's cut updates the film to include information about Ginserg's death.
66) Chicago 10
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at what happened during the anti-war protest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the subsequent trial brought against the protest organizers by the city. Includes animation, archival footage, and music from today's artists.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press/Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xix, 376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author, a radical and political prisoner, recounts her journey from the impassioned idealism of the 1960s to her thirteen-year imprisonment, during which she suffered dehumanizing treatment combined with rare moments of grace and solidarity.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 the 1960s: the counterculture, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the two were close friends and trusted confidantes who lived surprisingly parallel lives. In Buckley and...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xvi, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 511 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many Americans are attracted to socialism and economic redistribution while opponents of those ideas argue for purer capitalism. In the 1960s, Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to poverty, higher standards of living for the middle class, a better environment and more access to health care and education. Then, too, we debated socialism and capitalism, public sector reform versus private sector advancement. Time and again, whether...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Danny Goldberg's new book is a subjective history of 1967, the year he graduated from high school ... 1967 was the year of the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, among many others. 1967 was also the year of the Summer of Love; the year that millions of now-illegal LSD tabs flooded America; Muhammad Ali was convicted of avoiding the draft;...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvi, 267 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying-- and hotly debated-- crimes in American history. Because Oswald had briefly defected to the Soviet Union, some historians allege he was a Soviet stooge. But as Peter Savodnik shows in The Interloper, Oswald's time in the U.S.S.R. reveals a stranger, more chilling story. Oswald fled to the Soviet Union looking for a utopia, but quickly became just as...
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