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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459317103321

Autore

Farber David R

Titolo

Chicago '68 [[electronic resource] /] / David Farber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1988

ISBN

1-282-53836-5

9786612538360

0-226-23799-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

977.3/11043

Soggetti

Riots - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Political conventions - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Radicalism - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1963-1969

Chicago (Ill.) History 1875-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Making Yippie! -- 2. The Politics of Laughter -- 3. Gandhi and Guerrilla -- 4. Mobilizing in Molasses -- 5. The Mayor and the Meaning of Clout -- 6. The City of Broad Shoulders -- 7. The Streets Belong to the People -- 8 Inside Yippie! -- 9 Thinking about the Mobe and Chicago '68 -- 10 Public Feelings -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists-the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties." "Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a



watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."-Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology