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1969 Revisited

May 29, 2019 | SuzyQ

This year marks the 50th anniversary of several unforgettable events in American history - the Moon landing and Woodstock to name just a few. Check out some of the following resources to learn more about the highlights - and the lowlights - of this tumultuous year.

1969 : the year everything changed by Rob Kirkpatrick
100 days : how four events in 1969 shaped America by Harlan Lebo
American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race by Douglas Brinkley
Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11 by 1954- Jim Donovan
Woodstock [videodisc] : 3 days of peace & music
The road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
Stonewall uprising [videodisc]
Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America by 1969- Rick Perlstein
Vietnam : the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975 by John Prados
Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun
Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence by 1961- Bryan Burrough
Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders by Vincent Bugliosi
The roof : the Beatles' final concert [electronic resource] by Ken Mansfield
Paul VI : the first modern Pope by Peter Hebblethwaite
Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul by Clara Bingham
Street gang : the complete history of Sesame Street by 1952- Michael Davis
Brady, Brady, Brady : the complete story of The Brady bunch as told by the father/son team who really know by Sherwood Schwartz
"This is the Zodiac speaking" : into the mind of a serial killer by Michael D Kelleher
Just a shot away : peace, love, and tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont by Saul Austerlitz
Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
Brian Jones : the making of the Rolling Stones by Paul Trynka
Apollo 11 [videodisc]
Altamont : the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day by Joel Selvin
Flying supersonic [videodisc]
Member of the family : my story of Charles Manson, life inside his cult, and the darkness that ended the sixties by Dianne Lake
Something's Happening Here : A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock by Mark Berger
Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner
The Stonewall reader