{"product_id":"witness-to-the-revolution-radicals-resisters-vets-hippies-and-the-year-america-lost-its-mind-and-found-its-soul-9780812993189","title":"Witness to the Revolution: Radicals  Resisters  Vets  Hippies  and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Binghams 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 actionthe 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 womens 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 didnt 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 Binghams is one of many retrospective looks at that period  it is one of the most immediate and personal.Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953338769461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812993187","price":21.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812993189.jpg?v=1788185669","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/witness-to-the-revolution-radicals-resisters-vets-hippies-and-the-year-america-lost-its-mind-and-found-its-soul-9780812993189","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}