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Search - Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

Witness to the Revolution Radicals Resisters Vets Hippies and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
Author: Clara Bingham

The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution — As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American soci... more »ety?from work, family, and capitalism to sex, science, and gender relations. Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham?s unique oral history of that tumultuous time, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home, as it fought a long, futile war abroad.

From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. Two and a half million students went on strike and seven hundred colleges shut down. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War.

Woven together from one hundred original interviews, Witness to the Revolution provides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval through the words of those closest to the action?the activists, organizers, radicals, and resisters who manned the barricades of what Students for a Democratic Society leader Tom Hayden called ?the Great Refusal.?

We meet Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground; Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department employee who released the Pentagon Papers; feminist theorist Robin Morgan; actor and activist Jane Fonda; and many others whose powerful personal stories capture the essence of an era. We witness how the killing of four students at Kent State turned a straitlaced social worker into a hippie, how the civil rights movement gave birth to the women?s movement, and how opposition to the war in Vietnam turned college students into prisoners, veterans into peace marchers, and intellectuals into bombers.

With lessons that can be applied to our time, Witness to the Revolution is more than just a record of the death throes of the Age of Aquarius. Today, when America is once again enmeshed in racial turmoil, extended wars overseas, and distrust of the government, the insights contained in this book are more relevant than ever.

Advance praise for Witness to the Revolution

?Vivid, compelling, and addictively readable, Bingham has captured the lightning of the 1960s in a jar, where it blows the reader?s socks off. Whether you lived through this period or want to know what you missed, this is a popular history everyone should read.??Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money

?At once reliving and reflecting on the end of the 1960s, the voices in Witness to the Revolution provide a compelling history and an authentic testimony of a turbulent time. Living in a moment of new political turmoil, it?s critical that we revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urgent, and revolutionary. Clara Bingham takes us there.??Gay Talese, author of A Writer?s Life

?Moving, funny, horrifying, clarifying . . . the best sixties book since Edie.??Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon

?Takes you to the exact spot where the wave of the sixties, the Movement, and the Age of Aquarius crested. You can almost smell the tear gas.??Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves

?A remarkable oral history, deftly weaving together vivid characters, traumatic events, and fractious movements.??Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation

ISBN-13: 9780812993189
ISBN-10: 0812993187
Publication Date: 5/31/2016
Pages: 656
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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History >> Americas >> United States
History >> Military >> Vietnam War
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