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Year the Dream Died
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Year the Dream Died Hardcover - 1997

by Jules Witcover

For millions of Americans, the dream that we would at last face up with compassion to our most basic problems at home and abroad was shattered in 1968 by such tumultuous events as the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the election of Richard Nixon. In this book, a prominent journalist explores that pivotal year and examines the cynical social and political climate that resulted from it.


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A prominent journalist looks at the most pivotal year in modern American history -- and its irrevocable consequences for today's society. The tumultuous events of 1968 burden America to this day. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, campus riots, and the election of Richard Nixon led to disappointment, division, and self-doubt that bred distrust of the nation's leaders and institutions. For millions of Americans, the dream that we would at last face up with compassion to our most basic problems at home and abroad was shattered in 1968, and the groundwork was laid for the cynical social and political climate that exists today.

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Month by month, Witcover re-creates 1968 as he travels with, and reports on, the political fortunes of Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, George Romney, and Hubert Humphrey. He conveys the actual words of national figures and commentary by rock artists, media people, economists, Vietnam veterans, and Haight-Ashbury hippies. That year Witcover crossed the country from New Hampshire to California; he was standing on the rioting streets of Washington with Robert Kennedy after King was shot; he was in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel the night Kennedy was gunned down. An eyewitness to history, he presents a unique perspective that captures the mood of a nation and the life of ordinary people as shattering news erupts from assassins' bullets and backroom deals. Witcover broadens our understanding of how that year sowed the seeds of liberalism's demise, the shame of Watergate, Reagan's long reign, and today's new Democratic agenda.

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  • Title Year the Dream Died
  • Author Jules Witcover
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
  • Date 1997-06-01
  • ISBN 9780446518499 / 0446518492
  • Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.32 x 1.61 in (23.60 x 16.05 x 4.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D, United States - History - 1961-1969
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96042017
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.92

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/1997, Page 1653
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/1997, Page 709
  • Library Journal, 06/15/1997, Page 84
  • New York Times, 06/22/1997, Page 7
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1998, Page 78
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/05/1997, Page 185
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