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1) The 1990s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1990s.
2) The 1970s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1970s, including Vietnam, race relations, feminism, the environment, fashion, music, television, and film.
3) The 1980s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1980s, including the end of communism, the Iran-Contra affair, and pop culture of the time.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Taylor Branch's groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public. This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, between 1993 and 2001, Clinton...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises--Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s--had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a...
Author
Series
Charlie and Margaret Marder mystery volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Set in the 70's Wisconsin suburbs, high school student Eric lives with his parents, Red & Kitty. Next door lives his girlfriend Donna and her parents, Bob and Midge, The rest of Eric's friends include Jackie, and her on again-off again boyfriend, Kelso, Hyde, a conspiracy theorist, and Fez, a foreign exchange student who is soaking up American culture like a sponge. The group likes to spend their time in Eric's basement, pondering their lives, parents,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Set in the 70's Wisconsin suburbs, high school student Eric lives with his parents, Red & Kitty. Next door lives his girlfriend Donna and her parents, Bob and Midge, The rest of Eric's friends include Jackie, and her on again-off again boyfriend, Kelso, Hyde, a conspiracy theorist, and Fez, a foreign exchange student who is soaking up American culture like a sponge. The group likes to spend their time in Eric's basement, pondering their lives, parents,...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A 7-Part History of the United States in Vietnam In 1965, the United States officially became involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia where decades of turmoil had been building since the beginning of World War II. The fall of French Indochina and the spread of Communism, catapulted the country into one of its longest and deadliest wars. The history of U.S. involvement is told in this 7 part documentary series featuring personal stories from veterans...
20) The Vietnam War
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who fought...
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