The Dodgers Move West6 reviews Neil Sullivan Oxford University Press, USA, 1989 Highly objective and wothwhile I was a sad 10-year-old Brooklyn kid when I learned the dodgers were going to leave us. Like most everyone around, I tended to blame Walter O'Malley's greed. Yet in the end it may have been O'Malley's vanity more than his greed that was most responsible for the fateful decision. As Neil Sullivan ...             The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years1 review Mary Ann Watson Duke University Press, 1994 The start of TV Televisions rocky development is captured in this wonderful book. It covers the start of TV and the types of shows that were on. It comes in just after the game show scandals and focuses on the more violent programs that Newt Minow the head of the FCC tried to regulate. IT looks at children ...             Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War20 reviews Al Santoli Ballantine Books, 1985 A powerful book, in spite of errors + Powerful Oral History + Great reading for Vietnam war history + Very Unique Summation of Vietnam             Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States10 reviews Kenneth T. Jackson Oxford University Press, USA, 1987 A classical look at the suburbs of the United States + A great glimpse into the history of the suburb + came quickly + great book + History of Suburbanization in America             On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-19702 reviews Elizabeth Siegel Watkins The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 A superbly presented medical and social history. + Great study of the evolution in medicine Elizabeth Watkins' On The Pill: A Social History Of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970 is an informative social history of oral contraceptives covers the period from 1950-70, when the pill was at its strongest development and played a major role in changing women's lives. Chapters survey the ...             What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer28 reviews John Markoff Viking Adult, 2005 PREHISTORIC! + Intersesting perspective! If you are a student of the history of the personal computer, this is a fantastic exploration of the PC's "prehistory." Very readable and very informative. Full of the oddball characters one would expect to find in the San Francisco Bay area of the time. I don't think, however, that the author ...             Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States)18 reviews James T. Patterson Oxford University Press, USA, 1997 A well-balanced overview of America's most troubled era + Oxford does it again! + Just a Student + Interesting, readable, and careless + Wonderful             Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America33 reviews Christopher J Matthews Free Press, 1997 Very readable, very interesting, very relevant + Easy Reading, but that's the problem + Politics, Individuals & Nations + Superb!             Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)5 reviews Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 A great read + Excellent technology history + A Must Read for Engineers + Solid state is not a reference to California.             The Cold War: A History20 reviews Martin Walker Holt Paperbacks, 1995 Teachers: use this as your textbook!!! + good read + Great balanced work + A good, cheap read.             Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City2 reviews Scott L. Bottles University of California Press, 1991 How did transporation in LA die? + Wonderful Book!! Why did the urban transportation system in Los Angeles die? This book takes a very multifaceted approach and looks beyond the automobile as its cause. The title is a little misleading. The book covers the downfall of public transpiration in California and how the car impacted life in southern ...             Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power17 reviews Lou Cannon PublicAffairs, 2003 Fascinating, Scholary, and Unbiased + Fair and complete in its account + Lessons in leadership + Lou Cannon is Great + A good start to Reagan's governor years             Polio: An American Story29 reviews David M. Oshinsky Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 great historical book about the outbreak of polio and its eradication in the US + Excellent History of the Era and the Disease + Remarkable 20th Century History + Worthy of Attention + Riveting. You Won't Put it Down!             President Nixon: Alone in the White House40 reviews Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster, 2002 Man-in-the-center look at one of the compelling political figures of our time. + Functional History. + Reeves does it again! + Book Review             All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)4 reviews Glenn C. Altschuler Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 A wonderful indisciplinary review of seismic social change, reflected and caused by rock and roll. + It's time to rock + A good read "All Shook Up - How Rock `N' Roll Changed America" by Glenn Altschuler is a terrific and well documented book on the seismic social, sexual and racial changes in the United States that was both reflected and precipitated by a new music sweeping the nation in the 1950s and 1960s. This new music ...             The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American ...13 reviews Thomas J. Sugrue Princeton University Press, 2005 Excellent history of urban decline + Amazing read on historical origins of deindustrialization & the politics of suburbanizaiton + An incredibly important book about racial tensions in the North This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil rights actually emerged as ...             The Reckoning20 reviews David Halberstam William Morrow & Co, 1986 ten stars + Cars, egos, leadership, family, unions, and rises and falls ... + A wonderful book + Relevant even today + Execellent Book.             Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America33 reviews Christopher J Matthews Free Press, 1997 Very readable, very interesting, very relevant + Easy Reading, but that's the problem + Politics, Individuals & Nations + Superb!             On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-19702 reviews Elizabeth Siegel Watkins The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 A superbly presented medical and social history. + Great study of the evolution in medicine Elizabeth Watkins' On The Pill: A Social History Of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970 is an informative social history of oral contraceptives covers the period from 1950-70, when the pill was at its strongest development and played a major role in changing women's lives. Chapters survey the ...             What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer28 reviews John Markoff Viking Adult, 2005 PREHISTORIC! + Intersesting perspective! If you are a student of the history of the personal computer, this is a fantastic exploration of the PC's "prehistory." Very readable and very informative. Full of the oddball characters one would expect to find in the San Francisco Bay area of the time. I don't think, however, that the author ...