Chicago '68
Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago--an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists--the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the viol…
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- Full title :Chicago '68 / David Farber.
Summary
Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago--an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists--the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural ex.
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- Publication Date:1988.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1988.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxi, 304 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226237992, 0226237990, 9780226238005, 0226238008
- oclc:ocn644605729
- LC Classification:F548.52
- Dewey Decimal:977.3/11043
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