Soliciting suggestions for a class on the 1960s

I just finished taking a class called, “United States In The 1960'S”. In it the professor had us read The Conquest of Cool by Thomas Franks and Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens and write reviews of them. She wants to use different books the next time she offers the class and I thought this was the perfect place to ask for recommendations. They have to deal with something prominent in the 1960s and should be current, no more than a decade old.

My first suggestion is The Good Doctors, a book I learned about here.

So, I haven't read these but I have read academic journal reviews of them.

Up south : civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia
Law and order : street crime, civil unrest, and the crisis of liberalism in the 1960s
The Deacons for Defense : armed resistance and the civil rights movement
The dream life : movies, media, and the mythology of the sixties
Rainbow quest: the folk music revival and American society, 1940-1970
Freedom is an endless meeting : democracy in American social movements
Before the storm : Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus

You're killing me with that ten year limit ;)

I've got some suggestions, but if they are too old to be obtained easily, my apologies.

Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam.
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh.
An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 by Lewis Chester
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky

More as I think of them.

More on politics...

The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin MacKenzie and Robert Weisbrot (a Pulitzer Prize finalist)

The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics by Dan T. Carter (a Bancroft Prize winner)

The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election by Walter LaFeber

And of course, Taylor Branch's three volumes on Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement:

Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge.

Here are a couple unconventional ones:

Matthew Dalleck's The Right Moment about how the 1960's gave birth to conservative political ascendancy.

A Better War by Lewis Sorley. I'm sure it will provide a different perspective on Vietnam than you are getting in school -- unless you happen to be enrolled at West Point or the Army War College.

Also I second the endorsement for Before the Storm.

If you are interested in women's liberation and the sexual revolution, read Beth Bailey's Sex in the Heartland. It is a truly fabulous book!