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Witness to the revolution radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul

"As 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 Cambodi...

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Main Author: Bingham, Clara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2016]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Social movements > United States > History > 20th century > Interviews.
Student movements > United States > History > 20th century > Interviews.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest movements > United States > Interviews.
Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century > Interviews.
Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D. > Interviews.
Nineteen seventy, A.D. > Interviews.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980 > Interviews.
Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • The draft (1964-67)
  • Psychedelic revolution (1960-67)
  • Madison (1967-May 1969)
  • Radicals (1968-June 1969)
  • Resisters (1967-August 1969)
  • Woodstock (August 1969)
  • Weathermen (August-October 1969)
  • The Chicago Eight (September-November 1969)
  • Ellsberg (1967-October 1969)
  • Moratorium (June-October 1969)
  • Silent majority (November 1969)
  • My Lai (October-November 1969)
  • Exile (November 1969-February 1970)
  • December (December 1-31, 2969)
  • War crimes (January-April 1970)
  • Townhouse (January-April 1970)
  • Women's liberation (January-September 1970)
  • Cambodia (March-May 1970)
  • Kent State (April-May 1970)
  • Strike (May 1970)
  • Underground (May-July 1970)
  • Culture wars (May 1970)
  • Coming home (May-August 1970)
  • Army math (May-September 1970)
  • Escape (September 1970)
  • Reckoning.

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