To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic
National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar
movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation
gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s
movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.
In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming
life the cultural and political history of that pivotal
year, when television’s influence on global events first
became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred
simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse
realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and
the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed
who we were as a people–and led us to where we are today.
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