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The Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968

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The years 1967 & '68 were the high-water marks of the 60's; thus a recent spate of 20th-anniversary books. British journalist Caute's is a little like the era: passionate, busy & somewhat strident. Caute is very good at marshalling his forces & moving quickly & intelligently from way-station to way-station in 1968.--Kirkus
Introduction
Prologue: The Pentagon
The Vietnam War: Tet
The antiwar movement: America, Europe & Japan
The new politics of the young
Children of pleasure: the counterculture
Insurrection in Europe, 1: Poland, Italy, Spain, France & Britain
Insurrection in Europe, 2: Germany & W. Berlin, Belgium & Yugoslavia
The USA: the democratic primaries & draft resistance
The USA: black power
Columbia
Prague spring
France: students & workers
France: agitators & politicians
Films, sex & women's liberation
Radical theatres
The Democrats at Chicago
The other Chicago: yippies & pigs
Czechoslovakia: the Soviet invasion
Britain: the student revolt
Militant students, angry professors
A season of violence: Mexico, Europe & Japan
The USA: black students, white teachers
Prague winter
Decline of the new left
Afterword
Chronology of Main Events 1967-69
References & Sources
Index

Language: English

Pages: 528

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1988

ISBN 13: 9780060158705

The Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968

0/5 ( ratings)

The years 1967 & '68 were the high-water marks of the 60's; thus a recent spate of 20th-anniversary books. British journalist Caute's is a little like the era: passionate, busy & somewhat strident. Caute is very good at marshalling his forces & moving quickly & intelligently from way-station to way-station in 1968.--Kirkus
Introduction
Prologue: The Pentagon
The Vietnam War: Tet
The antiwar movement: America, Europe & Japan
The new politics of the young
Children of pleasure: the counterculture
Insurrection in Europe, 1: Poland, Italy, Spain, France & Britain
Insurrection in Europe, 2: Germany & W. Berlin, Belgium & Yugoslavia
The USA: the democratic primaries & draft resistance
The USA: black power
Columbia
Prague spring
France: students & workers
France: agitators & politicians
Films, sex & women's liberation
Radical theatres
The Democrats at Chicago
The other Chicago: yippies & pigs
Czechoslovakia: the Soviet invasion
Britain: the student revolt
Militant students, angry professors
A season of violence: Mexico, Europe & Japan
The USA: black students, white teachers
Prague winter
Decline of the new left
Afterword
Chronology of Main Events 1967-69
References & Sources
Index

Language: English

Pages: 528

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1988

ISBN 13: 9780060158705

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