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Published on: 2003-12-30
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In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women’s movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe. Everything was disrupted. In the Middle East, Yasir Arafat’s guerilla organization rose to prominence . . . both the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennale were forced to shut down by protesters . . . the Kentucky Derby winner was stripped of the crown for drug use . . . the Olympics were a disaster, with the Mexican government having massacred hundreds of students protesting police brutality there . . . and the Miss America pageant was stormed by feminists carrying banners that introduced to the television-watching public the phrase “women’s liberation.” Kurlansky shows how the coming of live television made 1968 the first global year. It was the year that an amazed world watched the first live telecast from outer space, and that TV news expanded to half an hour. For the first time, Americans watched that day’s battle–the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive–on the evening news. Television also shocked the world with seventeen minutes of police clubbing demonstrators at the Chicago convention, live film of unarmed students facing Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia, and a war of starvation in Biafra. The impact was huge, not only on the antiwar movement, but also on the medium itself. The fact that one now needed television to make things happen was a cultural revelation with enormous consequences. In many ways, this momentous year led us to where we are today. Whether through youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, Mark Kurlansky shows how, in 1968, twelve volatile months transformed who we are as a people. But above all, he gives a new understanding to the underlying causes of the unique historical phenomenon that was the year 1968. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written–full of telling anecdotes, penetrating analysis, and the author’s trademark incisive wit–1968 is the most important book yet of Kurlansky’s noteworthy career. 9780345455819: 1968: The Year That Rocked the World ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. Kurlansky Mark. 3.75 avg rating ... : 1968: The Year That Rocked the World ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more. Enter your mobile number or email address below and ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky ... To some 1968 was the year of sex drugs and rock and roll. ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World 5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 1 reviews. ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World - Mark Kurlansky ... ... he gives a new understanding to the underlying causes of the unique historical phenomenon that was the year 1968. ... 1968: The Year That Rocked The World Mark ... 1968: The Year that rocked the world - StarTribune.com It was a seminal year in U.S ... along in his senior year of high school when 1968 crashed ... the year with "1968: The Year That Rocked the World." 1968: The Year That Rocked The World - Walmart.com 1968: The Year That Rocked The World . ... To some 1968 was the year of sex drugs and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World Bookreporter.com book begins "There has never been a year like 1968 and it is ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky. Publication Date: December 30 2003; 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky ... Start by marking 1968: The Year That Rocked the World as ... reading of simultaneous events around the world; and 1968 was a pivotal year ... 1968: The Year That Rocked The World Mark Kurlansky ... ... 1968: The Year That Rocked The World. Most Read A.V. Club Most Read. ... author Mark Kurlansky eyes one of the 20th century's most notorious years in 1968 ... 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky 1968: The Year That Shook the World by Mark Kurlansky Jonathan Cape 17.99 pp437. ... have rocked the world their own way. 1968 in sum wasn't a beginning; ...
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