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An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Swede Levov is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter Merry has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
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Library of America volume 220
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Forty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, newsman Tom Brokaw, takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. Go beyond the legend to portray the man, the questions, the myths, and the relevance of Dr. King's message in today's world.
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Sixties trilogy volume 1
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English
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Franny Chapman and her family are living in fear and worrying about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the possibility of nuclear war.
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English
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Winner of the Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction
New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate "America's second revolutionary generation" in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century-brought to life through seven defining radical moments that offer vibrant parallels and lessons for today.
The political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was...
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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You will get a historical prospective of the war in this country after WW II. This book covers all the good and bad that comes from war. There are innocent victims that are killed, injured and maimed. There has been reconciliation between the United States and the country of Vietnam. This publication will make you aware of all that has happened to this country over a period of over sixty years.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000 American...
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America in the King years volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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