New York: Doubleday, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, a story starting in the "Freedom Summer" of the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. ISBN: 0-385-415060.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. Hardcover first edition - A look at the summer of 1964 - the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election - and the song, written by Marvin Gaye and recorded by Martha and the Vandelles, which took on many meanings as the country changed. The NY Times review commented about this book "For all the seriousness of Kurlanskys cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a time line of 1964, a discography of the song, bibliography and index. xxi, 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487224.