The Year the Dream Died
Revisiting 1968 in America
by Jules Witcover
544 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780788195518
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Pinpoints 1968 as the cataclysmic year of turmoil & violence, presidential surprises & an escalating war that set a shaken nation on a course of disappointment, racial division, & distrust in its leaders that persists today. Month by month, Witcover re-creates 1968 as he travels with, & reports on, the political fortunes of Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, George Romney, & Hubert Humphrey. He conveys the actual words of national figures & commentary by rock artists, media people, Vietnam vets & Haight-Ashbury hippies. He presents a unique perspective that captures the mood of a nation & the life of ordinary people.
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