1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Charles Kaiser
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Overview: 1968 in America is the tumultuous, comic, tragic, outrageous story of the year that changed a nation.
Nineteen sixty-eight has come to be recognized as the pivotal year in a period of nearly unprecedented change and upheavala year that witnessed the turning point of the Vietnam War and the Tet offensive; the shattering assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy; the near-breakdown of the Democratic National Conventionand, some thought, of the American political system itself. It was also the year in which the disparate strands of a growing youth culture burst forth upon the national consciousness, manifesting itself in a variety of waysfrom ground-breaking records by the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Rolling Stones; to an explosion of student and radical unrest unlike anything this country had ever seen.
Much has been written about the sixties, but no one has yet captured the mixture of heady exuberance and sheer desperation that characterized these twelve months. Now Charles Kaiser, former journalist for Newsweek and The New York Times and himself a member of the generation that was irrevocably transformed by 1968, has written a work that at once flawlessly recreates, celebrates, and demythologizes this much-eulogized time. Here is the first book to speak with equal conviction, and equal authority, about such diverse figures and concerns as Martin Luther King and Timothy Leary; Janis Joplin and Richard Daley; the reasons behind Lyndon Johnsons refusal to run for reelection and those pushing Bob Dylan toward electric music; the impact on Vietnam of John Kennedys death and the way sex, drugs, and rock and roll became a generations bywords; the Columbia gymnasium as a catalyst for student revolt and the autodestruction of Eugene McCarthys presidential campaign.
Genre: Non Fiction, History
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