Robert C. Cottrell, Blaine T. Browne

1968 (eBook, PDF)

The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJ's withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS' sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles' "Revolution," the Stones' "Street Fighting Man," The Population Bomb, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagan's belated bid, Wallace's American Independent Party campaign, "Love It or Leave It," and the backlash that set the stage, at year's end, for Richard Milhous Nixon's ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216249863
• Artikelnr.: 74834371

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Cottrell was a longtime professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico. He taught a course for many years on American Popular Culture and offered seminars on baseball and American culture. He is the author of The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant; Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe: Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season; Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball--and America; and The Year Without a World Series: Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players' Strike.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: "Yippie!" Chapter 2: "Hell No! They
Shouldn't Go!" Chapter 3: "We Had to Destroy the Town in Order to Save It"
Chapter 4: "The Impossible Dream": The New Politics Chapter 5: "We Shall
Overcome": The Dreamer Chapter 6: "We All Want to Change the World":
Springtime of the Young Rebels Chapter 7: "Burn, Baby, Burn": Bearing
Witness and the Boston Five Chapter 8: "You Saw You Want a Revolution"
Chapter 9: "There's a Man with a Gun Over There": The Politics of
Assassination Chapter 10: "The Whole World is Watching: Czechago Chapter
11: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T": People Power Chapter 12: "The Personal Is Political"
Chapter 13: "Goin' Up the Country": The New Environmentalism Chapter 14:
"Your Day, Of Course, Is Going to Be Over Soon": The Backlash Chapter 15:
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised": Legacies and Conclusion Appendix A:
List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index About the Authors