In 1968, eleven-year-old Julia and her Aunt Constance are forced to sell their family home, Windy Ridge, in New York's Hudson Valley and embark on a cross-country automobile trip in search of Julia's mother, bringing only three travel trunks and some "practical travel things.".
Presenting all sides of a complicated and tragic chapter in recent history, Jim O'Connor explains why the US got involved, what the human cost was, and how defeat in Vietnam left a lasting scar on America.
Two cousins must take a road trip across America in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Features historic quotations and photographs.
Presents biographical profiles of twenty-six significant activists, politicians, authors, musicians, artists, and other figures of the 1960s, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan, and Andy Warhol.
Award-winning journalist, Tom Brokaw, recalls the revolutionary events of 1968 that forever changed the nation and the world including the assassinations of Martin Luther King , Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic National Convention, the Civil Rights Movement, and the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency.
An illustrated introduction to the Vietnam War that discusses the reasons for the war, the battlefields, the weapons used, the public's response, significant people and milestones, and the lasting effects.
James L. Swanson weaves together Martin Luther King Jr.'s tumultuous last year and the path taken by a mysterious, lifelong criminal---James Earl Ray---a prison escapee who ended the celebrated civil rights leader's life.
