David L. Parsons. Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 176 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3202-5.
Reviewed by Gary Sprayberry (Columbus State University) Published on H-1960s (August, 2018) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner (Thomas Nelson Community College)
Paul Cronin, ed. A Time to Stir: Columbia '68. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 512 pp. $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-54433-7; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-18274-4.
Reviewed by Christopher A. Huff (Beacon College) Published on H-1960s (May, 2018) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner (Thomas Nelson Community College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51630
Emily Dufton. Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 320 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09616-9.
Reviewed by Jeremy Kuzmarov (University of Tulsa) Published on H-1960s (April, 2018) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner (Thomas Nelson Community College)
Joshua Clark Davis. From Headshops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xiv + 314 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17158-8.
Reviewed by Patrick Jones (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Published on H-1960s (March, 2018) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner (Thomas Nelson Community College)
Judy Kutulas. After Aquarius Dawned: How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 274 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3290-2.
Reviewed by Drew Maciag (Independent Scholar) Published on H-1960s (January, 2018) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Howard B. Means. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. 288 pp. $25.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-306-82379-4.Craig S. Simpson, Gregory S. Wilson. Above The Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016. xi + 254 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60635-291-5.
Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith. Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 392 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-07970-4.
Reviewed by Scott A.G.M. Crawford (Eastern Illinois University) Published on H-1960s (October, 2017) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Brothers in the Struggle
Benjamin Klein, ed. Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 192 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8510-1.
Reviewed by Thomas B. Weyant (University of Akron) Published on H-1960s (July, 2017) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Depicting Freak Communards in the Southwest
Nicole Hemmer. Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 336 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4839-5.
Reviewed by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, CUNY) Published on H-1960s (April, 2017) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Uncovering the First Generation of Conservative Media
Jim Downs. Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 272 pp. $27.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03270-9.Timothy Stewart-Winter. Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics. Politics and Culture in Modern America Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4791-6.
Stephen Siff. Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience. History of Communication Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 264 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08076-0; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03919-5.
Reviewed by William Rorabaugh (University of Washington) Published on H-1960s (November, 2016) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
The Rise and Fall of Acid in the Media
Julian E. Zelizer. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society. New York: Penguin Press PHC, 2015. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59420-434-0.
Reviewed by Katherine A. Scott (Associate Historian, Senate Historical Office) Published on H-1960s (September, 2016) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Going All the Way with LBJ
Christian G. Appy. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. 416 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-670-02539-8; $18.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-312834-2.
Reviewed by Thomas B. Weyant (University of Akron) Published on H-1960s (July, 2016) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
A Conversation Starter on American Exceptionalism
Bob Woodward. The Last of the President's Men. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. 304 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5011-1644-5.
Reviewed by Samuel Rushay (Harry S. Truman Library and Museum) Published on H-1960s (June, 2016) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Back to the Watergate Well
George Cotkin. Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 448 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-021847-8.
Reviewed by Alex Sayf Cummings (Georgia State University) Published on H-1960s (June, 2016) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner
Taking It to the Limit
