Chicago '68: A 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Book by David Farber
Chicago '68: A 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Book by David Farber
Chicago '68
by David Farber
US Historical Events Books - Books on Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois 1968 - American History Books
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.
Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago
"Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fair-minded 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
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."