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Chicago '68

By: David Farber

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Paperback | 1 August 1994 | Edition Number 1

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334 Pages

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22.61 x 16.03 x 2.13

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Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists—the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties."

"Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."—Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology

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"Like moths attracted to a bright and dangerous flame, American radicals knew they would have to be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. . . . Farber offers a nuanced interior view of the radicals' chaotically shifting mood as they flitted in and out of the city. [He] takes pains to get the texture of things right."--Nelson Lichtenstein"New York Times" (04/03/1988)

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Politics & Government Political Activism Demonstrations & Protest Movements Society & Culture Cultural Studies Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

Political Structure & Processes Political Structures & Democracy

Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
Narratives
Making Yippie!
The Politics of Laughter
Gandhi and Guerrilla
Mobilizing in Molasses
The Mayor and the Meaning of Clout
The City of Broad Shoulders
The Streets Belong to the People Analyses
Inside Yippie!
Thinking about the Mobe and Chicago '68
Public Feelings
Notes
Index
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