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A Bullet Through the Helmet by Douglas E. Moore

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip

On The Frontlines Of The Television War by Yasutsune Hirashiki

Vietnam War Biographies

106 books — 16 voters

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

Richard Nixon (fiction and nonfiction)

136 books — 19 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,434 books — 1,775 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

2021: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far

871 books — 47 voters

My Beautiful Hippie by Janet Nichols Lynch

Hippie Fiction

165 books — 17 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)

240 books — 79 voters

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“ It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Pers It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again. This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece Watership Down is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since The Wind in the Willows, but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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“ The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence. ...more ”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

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