The year the dream died
Subtitle: revisiting 1968 in America
By: Jules Witcover.
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D; United States -- History -- 1961-1969; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969; United States -- Social Conditions -- 1960-1980
Description: Month by month, Witcover re-creates 1968 as he travels with, and reports on, the political fortunes of Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, George Romney, and Hubert Humphrey. He conveys the actual words of national figures and commentary by rock artists, media people, economists, Vietnam veterans, and Haight-Ashbury hippies.

That year Witcover crossed the country from New Hampshire to California; he was standing on the rioting streets of Washington with Robert Kennedy after King was shot; he was in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel the night Kennedy was gunned down. An eyewitness to history, he presents a unique perspective that captures the mood of a nation and the life of ordinary people as shattering news erupts from assassins' bullets and backroom deals.

Witcover broadens our understanding of how that year sowed the seeds of liberalism's demise, the shame of Watergate, Reagan's long reign, and today's new Democratic agenda.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-532) and index.