{"product_id":"witness-to-the-revolution-book-clara-bingham-9780812983265","title":"Witness to the Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003ci\u003eST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society. \u003ci\u003eWitness to the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Clara Bingham's unique oral history of that tumultuous time, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home, as it fought a long, futile war abroad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Woven together from one hundred original interviews, \u003ci\u003eWitness to the Revolution \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval in the words of those closest to the action--the activists, organizers, radicals, and resisters who manned the barricades of what Students for a Democratic Society leader Tom Hayden called the Great Refusal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We meet Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground; Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department employee who released the Pentagon Papers; feminist theorist Robin Morgan; actor and activist Jane Fonda; and many others whose powerful personal stories capture the essence of an era. We witness how the killing of four students at Kent State turned a straitlaced social worker into a hippie, how the civil rights movement gave birth to the women's movement, and how opposition to the war in Vietnam turned college students into prisoners, veterans into peace marchers, and intellectuals into bombers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With lessons that can be applied to our time, \u003ci\u003eWitness to the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is more than just a record of the death throes of the Age of Aquarius. Today, when America is once again enmeshed in racial turmoil, extended wars overseas, and distrust of the government, the insights contained in this book are more relevant than ever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWitness to the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEspecially for younger generations who didn't live through it, \u003ci\u003eWitness to the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and entertaining primer on a moment in American history the likes of which we may never see again.\u003cb\u003e--Bryan Burrough, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the] best paperbacks of 2017 so far . . . The book is a rich tapestry of a volatile period in American history.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gripping oral history of the centrifugal social forces tearing America apart at the end of the '60s . . . This is rousing reportage from the front lines of US history.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe familiar voices and the unfamiliar ones are woven together with documents to make this a surprisingly powerful and moving book.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An] Enthralling and brilliant chronology of the period between August 1969 and September 1970.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBuffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bingham] captures the essence of these fourteen months through the words of movement organizers, vets, students, draft resisters, journalists, musicians, government agents, writers, and others. . . . This oral history will enable readers to see that era in a new light and with fresh sympathy for the motivations of those involved. While Bingham's is one of many retrospective looks at that period, it is one of the most immediate and personal.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613538787601,"sku":"GOR009146022","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50116221993233,"sku":"CIN0812983262VG","price":5.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763168973073,"sku":"CIN0812983262G","price":5.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812983262.jpg?v=1750914669","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/witness-to-the-revolution-book-clara-bingham-9780812983265","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}