and the Miss America pageant was stormed by feminists carrying banners that introduced to the television-watching public the phrase "women's liberation." Kurlansky shows how the coming of live television made 1968 the first global year.
the Olympics were a disaster, with the Mexican government having massacred hundreds of students protesting police brutality there. the Kentucky Derby winner was stripped of the crown for drug use.
both the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennale were forced to shut down by protesters. In the Middle East, Yasir Arafat's guerrilla organization rose to prominence. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Prague Spring the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive Black Power the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women's movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.
Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Publisher's description: With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval.
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