1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
by Charles Kaiser
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Author: Charles KaiserEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-24
ISBN: 0802135307
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: Superb Evocation of an Era and its Critical Year
Summary: 5 Stars
Kaiser beautifully evokes the era -- the love, the fear, the confusion, the hope, the madness... he really makes you feel like you're there. And the parallels to what's going on today -- particularly between the way the fear of being labeled "soft on communism" led to disaster in Vietnam then, and the way the fear of being labeled "soft on terrorism" has led to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan today, is stunning. Not an aspect of the book I would have wanted to describe as timely, but unfortunately, it is. Read this book and you'll feel like you are there -- and that there is a lot less far away than you might think.
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Charles Kaiser?s 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historical accounts of the 1960s. This book devotes equal attention to the personal and the political — and speaks with authority about such diverse figures as Bob Dylan, Eugene McCarthy, Janis Joplin, and Lyndon Johnson.
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