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Top 10 Best "1961" Books
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Twins JournalJohn SnyderBooks |
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Arthur Miller Arthur Miller
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In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons , the story of an industrialist confronted with his moral lapses during World War II; Death of a Salesman , the wrenching tragedy of Willy Loman's demise; The Crucible , at once a riveting reconstruction of the Salem witch trials and a parable of McCarthyism; and A View from the Bridge , Miller's tale of betrayal among Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, presented here in both the original one-act and revised two-act versions. |
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Parting the CurtainWalter L. HixsonBooks |
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Honor Bound Stuart I. Rochester
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Cloak and GownProfessor Robin WinksBooks |
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Driving the Soviets up the WallHope M. HarrisonBooks |
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Making Civil Rights LawMark V. TushnetBooks |
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Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1961-1962Hank KetchamBooks |
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Karpov's Strategic Wins 1Tibor KarolyiBooks |
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Frozen in TimeNikki NicholsBooks |
Breach of Peace A beautifully-produced book that celebrates the Freedom Riders, featuring rare-seen mug shots alongside stunning contemporary portraits. In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace." The name, mug shot, and other personal details of each Freedom Rider arrested were duly recorded and saved by agents of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a Stasi-like investigative agency whose purpose was to "perform any and all acts deemed necessary and proper to protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi." How the Commission thought these details would actually protect the state is not clear, but what is clear, forty-six years later, is that by carefully recording nam... |
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Breach of Peace Eric Etheridge
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Freedom RidersRaymond ArsenaultBooks |
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