If I was to teach a course on the 60's: Michael Vickery, Malcolm Caldwell and Ben Kiernan on Cambodia. Alfred McCoy The Politics of Heroin James Miller Democracy is in the Streets Martin Lee Acid Dreams Michael Herr Dispatches F.Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake Howard Zinn The Politics of History Andrew Kopkind The Thirty Years War Noam Chomsky American Power and the New Mandarins Noam Chomsky The Fateful Triangle (his best book, imo.) Stanley Karnow, Marilyn Young and G Kolko on Vietnam Glyn, Schor and Marglin ed. The Golden Age Shanin and Alevi ed. Intro. to the Sociology of Developing Societies. Richard Gott Guerrilla Movements In Latin America Timothy Wickham-Crowley Guerrilla Movements Father Camilo Torres Revolutionary Writings James Petras Politics and Social Change in L.A. Fred Halliday Arabia Without Sultans( on 60's liberation movements in Middle East) Southwood and Flanagan Indonesia Law, Propaganda and Terror Peter Dale Scott From Dallas to Watergate and Deep Politics Phillip Agee Inside the Company Basil Davidson Africa in Modern History and on Liberation Movements in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau Bob Fitch and Mary Oppenheimer Ghana:End of an Illusion Samir Amin Re-Reading the Postwar World Maalok Zaluk Class, Power and The Rise of the New Bourgeoise in Egypt Manning Marable African and Caribbean Politics from Nkrumah to Bishop. Ernest Mandel Late Capitalism The Cold War and The University with essays by Zinn, Chomsky and Lewontin. Harry Magdoff The Age of Imperialism Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man Frank Donner The Age of Surveillance (on COINTELPRO) Isaac Deutscher's and Hal Drapers essays on the 60's Writings of Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson Che: A Revolutionary Life Writings of Amilcar Cabral Speeches of Fidel Castro Frantz Fanon The Wretched of The Earth Eduardo Galeano Guatemala Occupied Country The 60's development debate:Baran, Rostow, A Lewis, Domar, A Emmanuel, A-G Frank Colin Leys The Rise and Fall of Development Theory Michael Parenti Democracy for the Few; The Sword and The Dollar Sean Gervassi The Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy The Little Red Book of Mao-Tse-Tung :-) Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Deer Hunter, Indochine, Born on The 4th of July are all ,in varying degrees, pro-imperialist films. None question the right of the U.S. and the French to be in S-E Asia but give a good sense of what it must have been like for young American conscripts. Other Films; La Chinoise, Weekend, films of Francesco Rossi, If..., The Year of Living Dangerously I think The Doors were the quintessential 60's rock band. Other musical figures would be Leonard Bernstein, Victor Jara, Phil Ochs, Dylan, Miriam Makeba, Shankar, John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix. Novels: Lolita, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Mailer, Salinger, Kesey, Clandestine in Chile,
