History.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:From assassinations to student riots, this is "a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy" (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).
In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; and the chaos at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. At the same time, a young generation was questioning authority like never before—and popular culture, especially music, was being revolutionized.
Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents—including in-depth conversations with Eugene McCarthy and Bob Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore White's archives, to which the author had sole access—1968 in America is a fascinating social history, and the definitive study of a year when nothing could be taken for granted.
"Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy's race for the presidency." —The New York Times Book Review.… (más)
The author of this book appeared on VH1 and after hearing his commentary, I sought out the book. I only skimmed through the musical sections, but I enjoyed what I read. Eventually, I'd like to read it in its entirety. ( )
Would you believe in a love at first isght? Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time. --John Lennon and Paul McCartney
This nation will keep its commitments, from South Vietnam to West Berlin. --President Lyndon B. Johnson in his first speech to a joint session of Congress, November 27, 1963
The younger generation came on the world scene [after 1960], not having lived through any of these other events and so they think of communism as being in some cases a terrible system and, in other parts of the world, nothing much worse than some of our allies. [Those in] the older generation think back on all of these events and say, 'How can you trust a Communist?' or 'How can you ever accept the idea that there should be a Communist?' When we talk in our country of the struggle between the young and the old, I think part of it at least is due to that. --Robert Kennedy to David Frost, 1968
Eugen McCarthy would seek the Democratic nomination for presidet in 1968 because of the War in Vietnam; after a painful interval, Robert Kennedy would emulate him.
Introduction: This is the story of what happened to America in 1968, the most turbulent twelve months of the postwar period and one of the most disturbing intervals we have lived through since the Civil War.
Preface: When Theodore H. White published 'The Making of the President, 1960,' the book that rrevolutionized the way Americans write about politics, every member of my family fell in love with it.
For me, at least, I hope the memory of that trauma and all the others of 1968 will now begin to fade away, so that our dream to make a better world may once again become vivid.
History.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:From assassinations to student riots, this is "a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy" (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).
In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; and the chaos at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. At the same time, a young generation was questioning authority like never before—and popular culture, especially music, was being revolutionized.
Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents—including in-depth conversations with Eugene McCarthy and Bob Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore White's archives, to which the author had sole access—1968 in America is a fascinating social history, and the definitive study of a year when nothing could be taken for granted.
"Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy's race for the presidency." —The New York Times Book Review.
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