MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO: AN INFORMAL HISORY OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CONVENTIONS OF 1968
by Mailer, Norman
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In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today’s bitterly divided country arose. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. In August, the Republican Party met in Miami and picked Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats backed Lyndon Johnson’s ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupted. Antiwar protesters filled the streets and the police ran amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television—and captured in these pages by one of America’s fiercest intellects. (Publisher’s Summary)
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- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
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- 1367600
- Title
- MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO: AN INFORMAL HISORY OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CONVENTIONS OF 1968
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Weidenfield & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
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