{"product_id":"nineteen-sixty-eight-in-america-music-politics-chaos-counterculture-and-the-shaping-of-a-generation-paperback","title":"Nineteen Sixty-Eight in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Kaiser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1968 was the year that defined the decade--Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, unprecedented antiwar riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam changed the course of the war. With this political unrest came a breakthrough of American counterculture into the mainstream led by students and protesters alongside the voices of Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, and Bob Dylan. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Charles Kaiser's \u003ci\u003e1968 in America\u003c\/i\u003e is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan), this is compulsively readable popular history. Now, fifty years later, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible, wonderful, and pivotal year in the story of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Kaiser has been a reporter at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a principal contributor to the documentary \u003ci\u003e1968: The Year That Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e and is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Gay Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Courage\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757491487008,"sku":"9780802128034","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8527a1879475b578325843126bef2f8e.webp?v=1780104469","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nineteen-sixty-eight-in-america-music-politics-chaos-counterculture-and-the-shaping-of-a-generation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}