The summer of 1968 was one of the most convulsive in American history. With the Vietnam War raging and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy still raw, both major parties gathered to choose their presidential candidates. In Miami, the Republicans settled on Richard Nixon with little drama. Chicago was another matter entirely. The Democrats’ decision to back Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson’s ineffectual vice president, brought antiwar protesters flooding into the streets — and the police responded with indiscriminate violence, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike as the cameras rolled. One of America’s most ferociously perceptive minds was there to record it all.
ISBN 13: 9780241340530
Author: Norman Mailer
