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1968 in America
Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
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1968 in America
Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
About this book
From assassinations to student riots, this is "a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy" (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).
In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; and the chaos at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. At the same time, a young generation was questioning authority like never before—and popular culture, especially music, was being revolutionized.
Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents—including in-depth conversations with Eugene McCarthy and Bob Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore White's archives, to which the author had sole access— 1968 in America is a fascinating social history, and the definitive study of a year when nothing could be taken for granted.
"Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy's race for the presidency." — The New York Times Book Review
In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; and the chaos at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. At the same time, a young generation was questioning authority like never before—and popular culture, especially music, was being revolutionized.
Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents—including in-depth conversations with Eugene McCarthy and Bob Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore White's archives, to which the author had sole access— 1968 in America is a fascinating social history, and the definitive study of a year when nothing could be taken for granted.
"Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy's race for the presidency." — The New York Times Book Review
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INDEX
Abernathy, Ralph, 144, 146, 228
Abrams, Creighton, 124
“acedia,” 176
Acheson, Dean, 15, 122, 125–126
“action faction,” 157
ADA (Americans for Democratic Action), 29, 30, 32, 36, 54, 89
Adams, Eddie, 68–69
AFL-CIO, 252
Agnew, Spiro T., 148, 224, 226, 229, 250
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” 210
Albert, Carl, 242
Alexander, Shana, 169, 175
“Alice’s Restaurant,” 40–41
Allen, Ivan, 140
“All I Really Want to Do,” 203
Alternative Candidate Task Force
(ACT ’68), 33
Amaya, Mario, 186
America, 6
American Forum of the Air, 16
American Friends Service Committee, 31
American Independent party, 140
amphetamines, xxvn, 76, 204, 206
“And When I Die,” 211
Apple, R. W, 252
Apple Corps, 212
Aretha Now, 208
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 43
Army-McCarthy hearings, 116
Arnett, Peter, 70
Arthur, Chester, 20
Ashford, Nickolas, 209, 210
Associated Press (AP), 63, 68, 141
AT&T, 76
Austin Everett, 148–149
Ayers, B. D., 92n
Bacharach, Burt, 208
“Back in the U.S.S.R.,” 214
Baez, Joan, xviii, 40n, 153, 201
Bailey, Charles, 106
Bailey, John, 55, 74
Baker, Ginger, 209
Baker, Russell, 187, 242, 243
Ball, George, 11, 122
Band, The, 202, 213
Bankhead, Tallulah, 128
Barnard, Christiaan, 76
Barnard College, 255
Basie, Count, 195
“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The,” 242
Battle of the Bulge, 79
Bay ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Crack in Time
- Preface
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Bringing It All Back Home
- One: Four Democrats, Three Ghosts, One War
- Two: Blowin’ in the Wind
- Three: Like a Rolling Stone
- Four: Tet: The Turning Point
- Five: The Truth Comes Home
- Six: The Chimes of Freedom
- Seven: Tears of Rage
- Eight: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Nine: Rock of Ages
- Ten: Desolation Row
- Eleven: This Wheel’s on Fire
- Twelve: The Long and Winding Road
- Epilogue: If Tomorrow Wasn’t Such a Long Time …
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover