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Philip Roth's fiction has often explored the human need to demolish, to challenge, to oppose, to pull apart. Now, writing with deep understanding, ... More

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Written with deep understanding, with enormous power and scope, and great storytelling energy, Philip Roth's newest novel focuses on the longing for ... More

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Compelling, timely, and quite simply a blast to read, "1969" chronicles this pivotal year in American history through all its ups and downs, in ... More

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The assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, campus riots, Richard Nixon--the American dream was ... More

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"With its hint of passion and irony, the title of David Chalmers' book aptly captures the complexities of his study. Beautifully written, it is more ... More

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George Leonard recounts his experiences as a reporter for Look magazine during the tumult, idealism, and passion of the 1960s. His memoir tells of ... More

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"Kirkpatrick makes a good case that 1969 was a year of landmark achievements, cataclysmic episodes and generation-defining events."--USA Today

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Letting Loose is a mosaic of a generation that experienced it all--the Vietnam War, the gay, feminist, and sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s, the ... More

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In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase ... More

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Fiction. The burden of silence passes from old to young in this lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel, dry land of ... More

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A compact account of the turbulent 1960s. Terry Anderson tackles the question of why America experienced a full decade of tumult and change, the ... More

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For millions of Americans, the dream that we would at last face up with compassion to our most basic problems at home and abroad was shattered in ... More

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The year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the rise of the hippie movement, and Black Power was a turning ... More

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David Burner's panoramic history of the 1960s conveys the ferocity of debate and the testing of visionary hopes that still require us to make sense ... More

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The multilayered story of the brief, turbulent, charismatic life of John Calvin Marshall, the man who became a leader in the nascent civil rights ... More

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Oates' dramatically charged debut novel "captures the political passion and energy of the late '60s" (New York Times Book Review). The setting is ... More

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"_Stained Glass Rain_ is as image dense and metaphysically jam-packed as any acid trip. Yet for all the very accurate descriptions of hallucinatory ... More

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A series of books chronicling our lives in powerful time capsules, from the dawn of the century -- when horses outnumbered cars 21 million to 8,000 - ... More

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Molly Flaherty's Us brother is a U.S. Marine fighting in Vietnam while she remains in Boston amid the radically changing political and social ... More

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