Ebook: 1968

"Yippie!" -- "Hell no! they shouldn't go!" -- "We had to destroy the town in order to save it" -- "The impossible dream": the new politics -- "We shall overcome": the dreamer -- "We all want to change the world": springtime of the young rebels -- "Burn, baby, burn": bearing witness and the Boston Five -- "You saw you want a revolution" -- "There's a man with a gun over there": the politics of assassination -- "The whole world is watching: czechago" -- "R-E-S-P-E-C-T": people power -- "The personal is political" -- "Goin' up the country": the new environmentalism -- "Your day, of course, is going to be over soon": the backlash -- "The revolution will not be televised": legacies and conclusion -- Appendix A: List of abbreviations.;"The year 1968 is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities."--Provided by publisher.