Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Mailer, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590172965 ISBN 13: 9781590172964

Verlag: New York Review of Books, 2008

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1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate, while in September, Democrats in Chicago backed the ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey. TVs across the country showed antiwar protesters filling the streets of Chicago and the police running amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike.
In Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer, America’s most protean and provocative writer, brings a novelist’s eye to bear on the events of 1968, a decisive year in modern American politics, from which today’s bitterly divided country arose.

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Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was the author of more than thirty books, includingThe Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize;The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; and The Castle in the Forest.

Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book is The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.

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• Verlag: New York Review of Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1590172965
• ISBN 13: 9781590172964
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 223
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