By Robert C. Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne

AcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: ¿Yippie!¿Chapter 2: ¿Hell No! They Shouldn¿t Go!¿Chapter 3: ¿We Had to Destroy the Town in Order to Save It¿Chapter 4: ¿The Impossible Dream¿: The New PoliticsChapter 5: ¿We Shall Overcome¿: The DreamerChapter 6: ¿We All Want to Change the World¿: Springtime of the Young RebelsChapter 7: ¿Burn, Baby, Burn¿: Bearing Witness and the Boston FiveChapter 8: ¿You Saw You Want a Revolution¿Chapter 9: ¿There¿s a Man with a Gun Over There¿: The Politics of AssassinationChapter 10: ¿The Whole World is Watching: CzechagoChapter 11: ¿R-E-S-P-E-C-T¿: People PowerChapter 12: ¿The Personal Is Political¿Chapter 13: ¿Goin¿ Up the Country¿: The New EnvironmentalismChapter 14: ¿Your Day, Of Course, Is Going to Be Over Soon¿: The BacklashChapter 15: ¿The Revolution Will Not Be Televised¿: Legacies and ConclusionAppendix A: List of AbbreviationsBibliographyIndexAbout the Authors

1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it 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 more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJ's withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS' sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles'"Revolution," the Stones'"Street Fighting Man," The Population Bomb, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagan's belated bid, Wallace's American Independent Party campaign, "Love It or Leave It," and the backlash that set the stage, at year's end, for Richard Milhous Nixon's ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.