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Description: A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men w...

Description: This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the l...

Description: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran...

Description: The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the Ameri...

Description: Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American c...

Description: Looks at the sixties in terms of its place in American history, and discusses the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Poverty...