Thompson on the 1970 Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, first appearing in an issue of Scanlan's Monthly in June of that year. Though not known at the time, the article marked the first appearance of gonzo journalism, the style that Thompson came to epitomize through the 1970s.The article's focus is less on the actual race itself—indeed, Thompson and Steadman could not actually see the race from their standpoint—and more on the celebration and depravity that surrounds the event, as well as other events in Louisville (Thompson's home town) in the surrounding days.

    . . Poignant." The Wall Street JournalIn this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation.From the Paperback edition.

    Prelude to Revolution is the indispensable study of May 1968. Generations have looked to this book for inspiration. Singer, who died in 2000, was widely considered the most adept interpreter of European politics for American audiences. He shows here how change happens—and why it is needed

    

    This is a compendium of photos, cartoons, articles & letters about the 60s movements: university politics, racial independence, native Americans, gays, hippies, yippies, revolution, Cuba, black power, police, Vietnam, prisons, military, technology, class, feminism, sexual revolution, the media, social change, cities, music, marijuana etc. Not just in the USA--movements around the world. The anthology begins with the Civil Rights struggle spurred on by students & radical movements. Articles from a wide range of papers, literary trades, universities etc. The book begins with a chronology starting in '56 when Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of the bus in Montgomery & Martin Luther King leads blacks in a 381 day boycott, thru to '70: Nixon, Agnew & Mitchell declare war on bums, radicals & other criminal elements. Reagan calls for a "bloodbath" to settle the student "problem." Kent State, Jackson State & Cambodia. Nationwide student strikes. Murder of black students & other young blacks by state troopers in Georgia & Mississippi. Draft Resistance regenerates Union for Nat'l Draft Opposition organized at Princeton. White wraps drawing of Mitchell Goodman, price printed to upper right corner. Rear wrap back of sandwich sign to front with titles of various papers of the time: Leviathan, The Bird, Ramparts, Berkeley Tribe etc. Inside photo, 1956: "One Thing Leads to Another," Rosa Parks, "Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of the bus in Montgomery." An excellent historical chronology of the times.

    A movie man of passion, his reviews range from Dr Strangelove and The Servant to Belle de Jour and Funny Girl.

    National Guard bullets killed four students and wounded nine. By nightfall the campus was evacuated and the school was closed. A generation of college students said they had lost all hope for the System and the future.Yet Kent State was not a radical university like Berkeley, Columbia, or Harvard. Although a new mood had been growing among the students in recent years, the school was not known for political activity or demonstrations. In fact, exactly one week before, students had held their traditional spring-is-here mudfight. What most alarmed Americans was the knowledge that if this tragedy could occur at Kent State, on a campus made up of the children of the Silent Majority and in the heart of Middle America, it could happen anywhere.But why? how did it happen that young Americans in battle helmets, gas masks, and combat boots confronted other young Americans wearing bell-bottom trousers, flowered shirts, and shoulder-length hair? What were the issues and why did the confrontation escalate so terribly? Would there be future confrontations like the one of May 4?To answer these questions, prize-winning reporters Eszterhas and Roberts, who were on campus on May 4, spent weeks interviewing all the participants in the tragedy. They traveled to victims' homes and talked to relatives and friends; they spoke to National Guardsmen on the firing line and to students who were fired on. By putting together hundreds of first-person accounts they were able to establish for the first time what actually took place on the day of the shooting.With new prefaces by Joe Eszterhas and Michael D. Roberts.

    

    An intimate portrait of the country and western music scene.

    Moorehead was in England when Edward VIII abdicated, in Paris during its last gay days of the 30's and was sent to Spain on a tanker smuggling petrol into Valencia.But this is also the story of Moorehead's friendship with a fellow journalist, Alexander Clifford. They were complementary opposites, professional rivals as well as friends. Clifford was an intellectual European and a profound pessimist, uncertain of himself and the world. The expatriate Moorehead was driven by his curiosity, brilliance and eagerness to discover the world.Together the pair went through the battles in the Western Desert, the landings in Sicily and France, and the final destruction of Hitler and Germany, which Moorehead recorded in his marvellous war books "Eclipse" and "African trilogy".After the war both Moorehead and Clifford continued to work in Europe, and their long conversations only ended with Clifford's death. By then Moorehead was writing the historical books for which he is so well known. "A Late Education", the last book he wrote, is his own history.

    B&W photos by famous photographer, Duncan, and narrative of soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.LC number: 70-123926