Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul
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Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul
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ISBN:
9780812993189
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First edition.
Physical Description:
xxxv, 611 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Filmography (pages 561-564).
Contents:
The draft (1964-67) -- Psychedelic revolution (1960-67) -- Madison (1967-May 1969) -- Radicals (1968-June 1969) -- Resisters (1967-August 1969) -- Woodstock (August 1969) -- Weathermen (August-October 1969) -- The Chicago Eight (September-November 1969) -- Ellsberg (1967-October 1969) -- Moratorium (June-October 1969) -- Silent majority (November 1969) -- My Lai (October-November 1969) -- Exile (November 1969-February 1970) -- December (December 1-31, 1969) -- War crimes (January-April 1970) -- Townhouse (January-April 1970) -- Women's liberation (January-September 1970) -- Cambodia (March-May 1970) -- Kent State (April-May 1970) -- Strike (May 1970) -- Underground (May-July 1970) -- Culture wars (May 1970) -- Coming home (May-August 1970) -- Army math (May-September 1970) -- Escape (September 1970) -- Reckoning.
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Summary:
During the academic calendar year of 1969 and 1970 schools across the country witnessed protests and acts of arson or bombings; students went on strike, and many colleges were forced to shut down. Bingham provides an oral history of that year when the anti-war movement could no longer be written off as fringe, and when America seemed on the brink of a revolution at home. In the words of those closest to the action-- activists, organizers, criminals, bombers, policy makers, veterans, hippies, and draft dodgers-- the reader will find narrative snapshots of key moments and critical groups that sprung up in some of the most turbulent years of the 20th century.
