Chicago '68
"Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago - an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells the story of the protests in the three different voices of the major protagonists - the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly re-creates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and langu…
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- Full title :Chicago '68 / David Farber.
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"Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago - an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells the story of the protests in the three different voices of the major protagonists - the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly re-creates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties.""--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:1994.
- Edition:Pbk. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1994.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 304 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0226238008, 9780226238005, 0226238016, 9780226238012
- oclc:ocn884008198
- LC Classification:F548.52
- Dewey Decimal:977.3/11043
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