"Yippie!" : Abbie, Jerry, and the politics of play -- "Hell no! They shouldn't go!" : Dr. Spock's children -- "We had to destroy the town in order to save it" : the impact of the Tet Offensive -- "The impossible dream" : the new politics -- "We shall overcome" : the dreamer -- "We all want to change the world" : springtime of the young rebels -- "Burn, baby, burn" : bearing witness and the Boston Five -- "You say you want a revolution" : radical politics and the counterculture -- "There's a man with a gun over there" : the politics of assassination -- "The whole world is watching : czechago" -- "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" : people power -- "The personal is political" : sexual revolutions -- "Goin' up the country" : the new environmentalism -- "Your day, of course, is going to be over soon" : the backlash -- "The revolution will not be televised" : legacies and conclusion -- Appendix A: List of abbreviations.
Summary:
"The year 1968 is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities."--Provided by publisher.
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