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 guerilla 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. 简介:In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.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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