num_pages: 123
description: In 1970, Richard Nixon escalated the war in Vietnam by ordering the invasion of neighboring Cambodia without the approval of Congress. The reaction on university campuses was immediate. But nowhere was it fiercer than at Kent State University in Ohio, where events that shook the very fabric of our society unfolded. At the University of Florida, this resulted in three days of anger and intense confrontation that culminated in an unparalleled milestone in the history of that great institution. This is the memoir of a student activist at the University of Florida whose home was in the Haiti of the most inscrutable and absolute leader of the time, Francois Papa Doc Duvalier. The story is set at UF in the midst of a student upheaval unprecedented in American history that the Reverend Billy Graham described as the Â"most critical period since the Civil War", and in Haiti where certain events validated the old dictum that truth can be stranger than fiction. It is a fascinating tale for the leisure reader or any student interested in that period.
language: English
title: The Taking of Tigert Hall: Reminiscences from a Bygone Era
titlecomplete: The Taking of Tigert Hall: Reminiscences from a Bygone Era
publisher: PublishAmerica