1961-1974

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Assault on the Left

the FBI and the sixties antiwar movement
1997
Describes the practices of the FBI counterintelligence group COINTELPRO against leftist advocates, proponents of the antiwar movement, hippies, and others that were deemed subversive by the organization in the 1960s and early 1970s.

John F. Kennedy

1988
Chronicles the early life, presidential campaign, term in office, and assassination of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

Vietnam

the valor and the sorrow : from the home front to the front lines in words and pictures
1985
Presents a new vision, both critical and healing, of the war fought on two fronts--at home and in Vietnam.

After all these years

sixties ideals in a different world
1990
Explores how socially conscious ideals from the 1960s can be integrated into the life choices of the 1990s.

Just like Martin

1992
Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.

The United States in the Vietnam war

1981
Explains the political, social, economic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War, the longest in American history.

Purple daze

2011
Six high school students in Los Angeles cope with everyday life amid the turbulent events of 1965, as one girl gets involved with drugs and a boy gets drafted and sent to Vietnam, in a novel told in historical data, poetic prose, and free verse.

In retrospect

the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam
1995
The author, secretary of defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, offers his views on America's Vietnam policy.

The sixties

years of hope, days of rage
1987
Focuses on the personalities, trends, and events as well as on the every day life of the decade.

America divided

the Civil War of the 1960's
2000
A history of the 1960s, discussing the social, cultural, and grassroots political movements that defined the decade, including the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Civil Rights Movement; and providing information about some of the people who spurred the era of change.

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