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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812993187
ISBN-13
9780812993189
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Witness to the Revolution : Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Political Ideologies / Radicalism, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Military / Vietnam War, Social History, Student Life & Student Affairs, Popular Culture
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Yes
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Political Science, Social Science, Education, History
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Hardcover
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1.5 in
Item Weight
35.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Trade
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2015-046134
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23
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Advance praise for Witness to the Revolution "Vivid, compelling, and addictively readable, Clara 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 "The cities and campuses were blowing up, the races and generations were at war, sex, drugs, and violence gripped our young. How the hell did that happen? Clara Bingham, a gifted reporter with a great sense of story, tells us in this moving, funny, horrifying, clarifying book. This is the best sixties book since Edie ." --Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon "In her compelling and dramatic oral history of that fleeting moment when America seemed to be a nation on the brink, Clara Bingham directs the choir of Woodstock Nation--an artfully composed collection of voices of those who went 'up the country' or on a 'long strange trip,' those sent off to Southeast Asia and others who stayed home and were driven mad by the Vietnam War. Singing a song of would-be revolution, this collection of antiwar veterans, Black Panthers, radicals, rock stars, and others who let their freak flags fly, not to mention a few Nixon intimates and fellow travelers, defies the notion that if you remember it, you weren't there. Vivid, vibrant, and crackling with energy, Witness to the Revolution 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 " Witness to the Revolution is a remarkable oral history, deftly weaving together vivid characters, traumatic events, and fractious movements. As we stand again as witnesses to a vertiginous period of change and challenge, Bingham's book is powerfully relevant. Above all, it is a vibrant and critical guide to a time that changed our nation forever." --Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, Advance praise for Witness to the Revolution "Vivid, compelling, and addictively readable, Clara 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 "For those who 'missed the sixties' (like most of us, whether demographically or spiritually), this vital book goes a long way toward explaining the original wound that festers in our 'culture wars' still. Witness to the Revolution is to the counterculture what Howell Raines's My Soul Is Rested is to the civil rights movement, a pageant of humanness that induces throat-clogging wonder at then and now." --Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home "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 "The cities and campuses were blowing up, the races and generations were at war, sex, drugs, and violence gripped our young. How the hell did that happen? Clara Bingham, a gifted reporter with a great sense of story, tells us in this moving, funny, horrifying, clarifying book. This is the best sixties book since Edie ." --Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon "In her compelling and dramatic oral history of that fleeting moment when America seemed to be a nation on the brink, Clara Bingham directs the choir of Woodstock Nation--an artfully composed collection of voices of those who went 'up the country' or on a 'long strange trip,' those sent off to Southeast Asia and others who stayed home and were driven mad by the Vietnam War. Singing a song of would-be revolution, this collection of antiwar veterans, Black Panthers, radicals, rock stars, and others who let their freak flags fly, not to mention a few Nixon intimates and fellow travelers, defies the notion that if you remember it, you weren't there. Vivid, vibrant, and crackling with energy, Witness to the Revolution 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 " Witness to the Revolution is a remarkable oral history, deftly weaving together vivid characters, traumatic events, and fractious movements. As we stand again as witnesses to a vertiginous period of change and challenge, Bingham's book is powerfully relevant. Above all, it is a vibrant and critical guide to a time that changed our nation forever." --Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, Advance praise for Witness to the Revolution "Vivid, compelling, and addictively readable, Clara 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 "The cities and campuses were blowing up, the races and generations were at war, sex, drugs, and violence gripped our young. How the hell did that happen? Clara Bingham, a gifted reporter with a great sense of story, tells us in this moving, funny, horrifying, clarifying book. This is the best sixties book since Edie ." --Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon "In her compelling and dramatic oral history of that fleeting moment when America seemed to be a nation on the brink, Clara Bingham directs the choir of Woodstock Nation--an artfully composed collection of voices of those who went 'up the country' or on a 'long strange trip,' those sent off to Southeast Asia and others who stayed home and were driven mad by the Vietnam War. Singing a song of would-be revolution, this collection of antiwar veterans, Black Panthers, radicals, rock stars, and others who let their freak flags fly, not to mention a few Nixon intimates and fellow travelers, defies the notion that if you remember it, you weren't there. Vivid, vibrant, and crackling with energy, Witness to the Revolution 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 " Witness to the Revolution is a remarkable oral history, deftly weaving together vivid characters, traumatic events, and fractious movements. As we stand again as witnesses to a vertiginous period of change and challenge, Bingham's book is powerfully relevant. Above all, it is a vibrant and critical guide to a time that changed our nation forever." --Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, Advance praise for Witness to the Revolution " Witness to the Revolution is vivid, compelling, and addictively readable. Clara 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 "For those who 'missed the sixties' (like most of us, whether demographically or spiritually), this vital book goes a long way toward explaining the original wound that festers in our 'culture wars' still. Witness to the Revolution is to the counterculture what Howell Raines's My Soul Is Rested is to the civil rights movement, a pageant of humanness that induces throat-clogging wonder at then and now." --Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home "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. As we live through a new moment of 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 "The cities and campuses were blowing up, the races and generations were at war, sex, drugs, and violence gripped our young. How the hell did that happen? Clara Bingham, a gifted reporter with a great sense of story, tells us in this moving, funny, horrifying, clarifying book. This is the best sixties book since Edie ." --Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon "In her compelling and dramatic oral history of that fleeting moment when America seemed to be a nation on the brink, Clara Bingham directs the choir of Woodstock Nation--an artfully composed collection of voices of those who went 'up the country' or on a 'long strange trip,' those sent off to Southeast Asia and others who stayed home and were driven mad by the Vietnam War. Singing a song of would-be revolution, this collection of antiwar veterans, Black Panthers, radicals, rock stars, and others who let their freak flags fly, not to mention a few Nixon intimates and fellow travelers, defies the notion that if you remember it, you weren't there. Vivid, vibrant, and crackling with energy, Witness to the Revolution 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 " Witness to the Revolution is a remarkable oral history, deftly weaving together vivid characters, traumatic events, and fractious movements. As we stand again as witnesses to a vertiginous period of change and challenge, Bingham's book is powerfully relevant. Above all, it is a vibrant and critical guide to a time that changed our nation forever." --Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation
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Synopsis
The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. 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. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society. 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. Woven together from one hundred original interviews, Witness to the Revolution provides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval in 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. Praise for Witness to the Revolution "Especially for younger generations who didn't live through it, Witness to the Revolution is a valuable and entertaining primer on a moment in American history the likes of which we may never see again." --Bryan Burrough, The Wall Street Journal "A rich tapestry of a volatile period in American history." -- Time "A gripping oral history of the centrifugal social forces tearing America apart at the end of the '60s . . . This is rousing reportage from the front lines of US history." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "The familiar voices and the unfamiliar ones are woven together with documents to make this a surprisingly powerful and moving book." -- New York Times Book Review " An] Enthralling and brilliant chronology of the period between August 1969 and September 1970." -- Buffalo News " Bingham] captures the essence of these fourteen months through the words of movement organizers, vets, students, draft resisters, journalists, musicians, government agents, writers, and others. . . . This oral history will enable readers to see that era in a new light and with fresh sympathy for the motivations of those involved. While Bingham's is one of many retrospective looks at that period, it is one of the most immediate and personal." -- Booklist, The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. 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. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society. 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. Woven together from one hundred original interviews, Witness to the Revolution provides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval in 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. Praise for Witness to the Revolution "Especially for younger generations who didn't live through it, Witness to the Revolution is a valuable and entertaining primer on a moment in American history the likes of which we may never see again." --Bryan Burrough, The Wall Street Journal "A rich tapestry of a volatile period in American history." -- Time "A gripping oral history of the centrifugal social forces tearing America apart at the end of the '60s . . . This is rousing reportage from the front lines of US history." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "The familiar voices and the unfamiliar ones are woven together with documents to make this a surprisingly powerful and moving book." -- New York Times Book Review "[An] Enthralling and brilliant chronology of the period between August 1969 and September 1970." -- Buffalo News "[Bingham] captures the essence of these fourteen months through the words of movement organizers, vets, students, draft resisters, journalists, musicians, government agents, writers, and others. . . . This oral history will enable readers to see that era in a new light and with fresh sympathy for the motivations of those involved. While Bingham's is one of many retrospective looks at that period, it is one of the most immediate and personal." -- Booklist
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