Dudley, William, ed., The 1960s, America's Decades series, Greenhaven Press, 2000.

Like other books in the America's Decades series, this book offers a brief overview of the history and culture of America in a particular ten-year period. The book covers several topics, including popular music, the space race, the Civil Rights movement, and overseas conflicts like the Vietnam War.

George, Nelson, Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound, St. Martin's Press, 1985.

George gives a comprehensive account of Motown's development, from the sociological factors that ultimately forced Berry Gordy Jr.'s family to move to Detroit, to Gordy's sale of Motown's distribution rights in the 1980s. George draws on several first-person accounts from industry insiders to chronicle Gordy's struggle to launch and sustain Motown, offering plenty of behind-the-scenes anecdotes along the way. The book also includes a comprehensive chart that gives information...