Chicago '68
by Farber, David
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0226238008
- ISBN 13
- 9780226238005
- Seller
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About This Item
ex-lib, withdrawn stamp on title page, library markings on rear dust jacket, tape ghost on front board top, rear recto page cut outbook has been read many times. only one underling on page 205 giving the number of American dead 308 and wounded 1144 in Vietnam during the Democratic convention.no under underline or writing no mars or tears or other defectsBut you are not buying this book for the condition. You want to know about the 1968 Democratic convention and the resistance to carrying on the Vietnam War the way it was.Farber was 12 and living in Chicago and was told by the police to scram. He was too young to be involved in the action. this book, is his making sense of what happened in his hometown and why the major actors on both sides did what they did. If you are at all interested in the Vietnam War or politics in the US, this is an important book to read, along with Farber's the Age of great Dreams, which I do not have for sale, ig you want to understand where we are as a nation in 2018.photos, footnotes, bibliography, index.
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- acs books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 196
- Title
- Chicago '68
- Author
- Farber, David
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0226238008
- ISBN 13
- 9780226238005
- Publisher
- university of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago Il1988
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 6"x 9 1/2 "'
- Keywords
- chicago vietnam democratic party convention lyndon johnson ant-war protest yippie moratortium mobilization politics sds
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- government/american; vietnam war; history/american; sixties; presidents;
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