Product Description: En la legendaria decada de 1960, las dos bandas mas grandes del mundo libraron una batalla epica. Tanto los Beatles como los Rolling Stones sostenian que en realidad no eran rivales, que eso no era mas que un invento de los medios, pero a ambos lados del Atlantico nunca dejaron de competir en terminos de exito comercial y credibilidad estetica...read more

Product Description: A lively examination of the most legendary (and least understood) rivalry in the annals of rock ’n’ roll: “Beatles vs. Stones is one of the best rock biographies I have seen this year…If you thought you knew everything there was to know about these two groups, think again” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)...read more

Product Description: How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s...read more

Product Description: Protest Nation is a guide through the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of the American radical tradition in the twentieth century. With examples from socialists, feminists, union organizers, civil-rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentalists that have served as beacons for millions, the volume also includes brief introductory essays by the editors that provide a rich biographical and historical context for each selection included...read more

Product Description: Starting with the premise that it is possible to say something significantly new about the 1960s and the New Left, the contributors to this volume trace the social roots, the various paths, and the legacies of the movement that set out to change America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)