A remarkably well-written and entertaining romp across the title decade, with a look at how economic, politcal, and social forces yielded a time not of innocence, but of innocence lost.
Horowitz, David. Radical Son.
Hailed as the greatest autobiography of a generation and criticized as the nastiest, Horowitz's tract takes us from his Red Diaper Baby roots to his Neo Conservative present. A personal and controversial tale of growing up amidst the ideas and politics of 20th century America.
Rorabaugh, WJ. Berkeley at War: The 1960s.
Based on the idea that true history must be local, Rorabaugh examines that at-once magical and tormented city as it coped with its most noted and painful decade. Four chapters address the intertwined stories of the Free Speech Movement, the Black Power Movement, the Antiwar Movement, and the Counterculture.
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States.
Almost a cliche on current historiographical bibliographies, Zinn remains the pioneer of contemporary revisionist historical thought. An approach different to traditional stories of America as a negative is to a photograph.