books about: 1962-1970

books about: 1962-1970

books:

1962-1970

Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962 (Eisenhower ...
Zachary Karabell

Louisiana State University Press, 1999

Little Annie Fanny, Volume 1

Will Elder, Hugh Hefner, ...

Dark Horse, 2001

what a good cartoon sould be
i enjayed the book very well and the color was nothing i ever saw the cartoons in the book, they reminded me of when i first saw them in a popular magazine.

The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

Sheldon Stern

Stanford University Press, 2005

A narrative written for students and general readers
The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous moment of the Cold War and has received numerous analysis in other titles and articles. What makes Sheldon M. Stern's The Week The World Stood Still: Inside The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis different is its focus on a ...

Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War

Mouloud Feraoun, James D. Le Sueur

Bison Books, 2000

Essential Reading On Algeria For English Reader
There are a few important works on the Algerian Civil War available for the English reader. Franz Fannon, Alistair Horne's history, the film "Battle of Algiers, and recently Feraoun's diary are the ones that readily come to mind. Feraoun was a western educated Algerian ...

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Max Frankel

Presidio Press, 2004

SHOULD BE READ BY ALL PEOPLE WHO ASSUME THEY KNOW IT ALL -
NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK. IT'S TAKES A SUBJECT, THE FACTS ABOUT WHICH HAVE BEEN BEATEN TO DEATH IN ALL MEDIA FORMS, AND FOR ONCE, ALLOWS YOU TO COME AWAY WITH A CLEAR, FACTUAL, THOROUGH, UNCOMPLICATED, UNBIASED UNDERSTANDING OF EXACTLY ...

Shelby Cobra Gold Portfolio 1962~1969

R.M. Clarke

Brooklands Books, 1990

For Mustang Lovers
mustangs are the best muscle cars ever made. the best was the Shelby Cobra. This book is great for all classic car lovers

The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970

Mark Lewisohn

EMI Records, 2006

Amazing...
First, I find it amazing that anyone kept this information in such detail in the first place. Secondly, it is amazing that it was ever complied and put into a book. Thirdly it was amazing that anyone would a.) Publish the book, b.) Buy the book in the first place ...

The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Concise Edition

Philip Zelikow

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

Fascinating Actual Account of History
To be honest, I bought this book used after seeing the movie "13 Days." In fact, I ordered this book the very night I came home from the movie, wondering if it would be worth the money spent.. Now, having read through it, I must admit that this was a very fascinating ...

Marilyn Monroe and the Camera

Georges Belmont

Schirmer/Mosel, 2007

Good place to start for Marilyn photos.
One of the first Marilyn books I got was a compilation of photographs from well-known photographers. It wasn't till later that I got the original primary sources, i.e. books by Eve Arnold, and collections by Bernard Bruno and Bert Stern. So once one gets this ...

Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting - Writings and interviews 1962-1993

Gerhard Richter

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1995

important questions regarding the practice of painting
Hard to explain why artists need this book without sounding pretentious. Richter questions not only the conventions of art, but his own decisions and intentions. Sometimes he contradicts his younger self. And he's fine with that. The book is at once unsettling and ...

America: A History in Verse, 1962-1970 (America: a History of Verse)

Ed Sanders

Black Sparrow Press, 2002

MY DECADE TIS A THEE....SWEET LAND OF HIPPIES, YIPPIES, RIOTS, PEACE, WAR, ASSASINATIONS AND REVOLUTION IN THE AIR
.......not to mention a great soundtrack........Sanders cuts a slice of American Pie straight out of the decade that still haunts the politics of today.........the boomers who would care about such a book will love it.....boomers who might try to read it and wonder ...

Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis

Alice L. George

The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Fear of World's End
With the precision of a journalist, Dr. Alice George returns a generation of baby boomers to a protracted period of dread. Her delvings into a broad span of source material, scholarly and popular, touch anew the terrors of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when people ...

Satura: 1962-1970

Eugenio Montale

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Montale's highest work and his most pointed poetry
Although not as popular as his first period ("La ossi di seppia" through "La bufera"), Satura is Montale's best work, and his lyrics are considerably more pointed and biting than they were before. I'd recommend this to anyone who is interested in Montale's work, and ...

Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax-Priísta, 19401962
Tanalis Padilla

Duke University Press, 2008

In Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata, Tanalís Padilla shows that the period from 1940 up to 1968, generally viewed as a time of social and political stability in Mexico, actually saw numerous instances of popular discontent and wide-scale state repression. Padilla provides a detailed history of a mid-twentieth-century agrarian mobilization in ...

COLD WAR, HOT WINGS: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot 1962 - 1994
Chris Bain

Pen and Sword Books, 2007

This is a semi-autobiographical account of a fighter pilot in the RAF from 1962 to 1994. He was both a Hunter and Harrier pilot, rose to Squadron Leader level, and commanded fighter and strategic reconnaissance units. He was CO of the Desert Rescue Team, flew Dakotas on desert supply running, and saw active fighter service receiving bullet holes ...