20th century
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american culture
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Chicago
conventions
cops
crisis
cultural studies
democratic convention
democrats
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government
historical
history
illinois
marching
mayor richard j daley
mobilizing
national mobilization to end the war
perception
police
political science
politics
protesting
protests
public feelings
radicalism
united states of america
usa
yippies
Product details
- ISBN 9780226238012
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 1994
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists—the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties."
"Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."—Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology
"Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."—Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology
