Text and photos chronicle the year 1968 in American social, political, and popular culture, covering the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, and the stars of rock music, among other topics.
Presents background information on the Cold War and the Vietnam war as context for events surrounding the Democratic Party Convention of 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, focusing on the street confrontations between police and activists during the convention.
Examines the lives and actions of six men from the North and South who played key roles in the course of the Civil War and its aftermath, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Contains an in-depth look at the Kennedy family during John F. Kennedy's presidency, focusing especially on his wife and children, and explores the impact of photography and the media on Kennedy's public image and persona.
A collection of personal narratives about the Watergate scandal of the 1970s by those who were closely associated with it including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Barbara Jordon, Sam Ervin, and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the news of the break-in.
Examines how and why America went to war in Vietnam, and investigates the question of why men who were said to be the ablest to serve in government in the twentieth century had been the architects of the tragic conflict.
Chronicles the changes in American women's lives that occurred in the 1960s and describes the contributions of specific women feminists, protesters, civil rights activists, musicians and artists, and members of the counterculture. Includes an annotated further reading list.
