Chicago '68

Name: Chicago '68
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ISBN: 9780226238012

ISBN-10: 0226238016

ISBN-13: 9780226238012

Edition: 1994

Authors: David Farber

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

David Farber is a professor of history at Temple University. He has authored and edited many books in modern American history, including The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s.



Preface


Introduction


Abbreviations


Narratives



Making Yippie!



The Politics of Laughter



Gandhi and Guerrilla



Mobilizing in Molasses



The Mayor and the Meaning of Clout



The City of Broad Shoulders



The Streets Belong to the People Analyses



Inside Yippie!



Thinking about the Mobe and Chicago '68



Public Feelings


Notes


Index