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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s by Mike Wright ISBN: 0-89141-724-9 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 12 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: History Lite: Good Stories, Well Told
Comment: Wright's latest book is an agreeable tour of the 1960s. Despite the title, the book covers a lot of the same ground as conventional histories of the period. The style, however, is breezy and approachable--there aren't any shocking revelations, but Wright is a capable writer who knows how to tell a good story.
Wright is at his best when he talks about television, sports, "culture shock," and other experiences that tend to be ignored in mainstream history books. He has a good eye for an amusing story (not a surprising talent for an Emmy-winning television writer), and there are plenty of these sprinkled throughout the book. For instance, when Secretary of State Dean Rusk commented that the United States had gone "eyeball-to-eyeball" with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile crisis, Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko replied that "I am looking forward to talking with you balls to balls." As Wright points out, it's obvious that a lot was lost in the translation.
If you like a lot of rigorous analysis and chronology in your history, this is not the book for you. Wright reviews the sixties in broad chapters like "TV or Not TV: That is the Message" and "Shots Ring Out: JFK, RFK and MLK." You may find yourself getting dizzy going from one end of the sixties to the other and then back again--on the other hand, maybe that's just Wright's metaphor for the whole decade.
If you are looking for an informative and amusing book that you can enjoy on an airplane, as I did, "What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s" is a good place to start.
For those who enjoy this sort of thing, Wright has also written "What They Didn't Teach You About" books for the American Revolution, Civil War, Wild West and World War II. I've read and enjoyed Wright's book about WWII, and I look forward to reading the rest.
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the American Revolution by Mike Wright, Mike Wright ISBN: 089141746X Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 04 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War by Mike Wright ISBN: 0891416544 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About World War II by Mike Wright, Mike Wright ISBN: 0891417230 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the Wild West by MIKE WRIGHT ISBN: 0891416900 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 19 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: One-Night Stands with American History (Revised and Updated Edition) : Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents by Richard Shenkman, Kurt Reiger ISBN: 0060538201 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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