1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
(By Charles Kaiser)
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A compelling work of popular history, it's used in college courses countrywide. The book covers the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy & Bobby Kennedy in depth, as well as the life of Martin Luther King, Jr, the riots at Columbia University in the spring of 1968 & the eruptions in the streets outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Bob Dylan granted an exclusive interview for this book. 1968 in America includes extensive material about everyone from the Beatles to John Hammond, the greatest musical talent scout of the 20th Century, who discovered everyone from Billie Holiday & Aretha Franklin to Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen. It also covers everything from the Tet Offensive, which transformed America’s attitude toward Vietnam, to the CIA’s extensive experiments with LSD. (The intelligence agency calling it a “potential new agent for conventional warfare.”)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr called 1968 “a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—-a year of tumult, of trauma & of tragedy.””
