1968 In America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Kaiser Charles
1968 was the year that defined the decade--Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, unprecedented antiwar riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam changed the course of the war. With this political unrest came a breakthrough of American counterculture into the mainstream led by students and protesters alongside the voices of Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, and Bob Dylan.Charles Kaiser's 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan), this is compulsively readable popular history. Now, fifty years later, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible, wonderful, and pivotal year in the story of America.
Kaiser, Charles: - Charles Kaiser is the author of 1968 in America, one of the most admired popular histories of the music, politics, and culture of the 1960s, and The Gay Metropolis, the landmark history of gay life in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award winner. He is a former reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a former press critic for Newsweek. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, and New Republic, among other publications. He grew up in Washington, D.C.; Dakar, Senegal; London, England; and Windsor, Connecticut. Since 1968 he has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, except for the two and a half years he spent in France to research The Cost of Courage.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781555842420 |
| ISBN 10 | 1555842429 |
| Title | 1968 In America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation |
| Author | Kaiser Charles |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grove Pr |
| Year published | 1988-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
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