Showing 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky

Paperback. Pub Date: 2005. Pages: 464 in Publisher: Vintage Books USA It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. assassinations the Prague Spring. The Chicago convention. the Tet offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement. the student rebellion that paralysed France. civil rights. the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. and the birth of the women's movement. With 1968: The Year that Rocked the World. award-winning journalist Mark Kurlansky has written his Magnum opus - a cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. when television's impact on global events first became apparent. and when simultaneously - in Paris. Prague. London . Berkeley. and all over the globe - uprisings spontaneously occurred. 1968 encompasses the worlds of youth and music. politics. w...