1968
Subtitle: the rise and fall of the new American Revolution
By: Robert C. Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne
Contributors: Browne, Blaine T. (Blaine Terry), author
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781538107751
Subjects: Politics and government; Protest movements; Radicalism; Revolutionaries; Political activists; New Left; Social conditions; History; Youth movements; Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.; Social movements
Other titles: Nineteen sixty-eight :
Description: "The year 1968 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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Yippie!" : Abbie, Jerry, and the politics of play; title: "Hell no! They shouldn't go!" : Dr. Spock's children; title: "We had to destroy the town in order to save it" : the impact of the Tet Offensive; title: "The impossible dream" : the new politics; title: "We shall overcome" : the dreamer; title: "We all want to change the world" : springtime of the young rebels; title: "Burn, baby, burn" : bearing witness and the Boston Five; title: "You say you want a revolution" : radical politics and the counterculture; title: "There's a man with a gun over there" : the politics of assassination; title: "The whole world is watching : czechago"; title: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" : people power; title: "The personal is political" : sexual revolutions; title: "Goin' up the country" : the new environmentalism; title: "Your day, of course, is going to be over soon" : the backlash; title: "The revolution will not be televised" : legacies and conclusion; title: Appendix A: List of abbreviations.