Book description
It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the
year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the
Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the Tet offensive in Vietnam and
the anti-war movement, the student rebellion that paralysed France,
civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, and the
birth of the women's movement. With 1968: The Year that Rocked the
World, award-winning journalist Mark Kurlansky has written his Magnum
opus - a cultural and political history of that world-changing year of
social upheaval, when television's impact on global events first became
apparent, and when simultaneously - in Paris, Prague, London, Berkeley,
and all over the globe - uprisings spontaneously occurred. 1968
encompasses the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics,
assassinations, riots, demonstrations and the media, and shows us how we
got to where we are today. Mark Kurlansky is author of Cod: A
Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfidish's
Best Food Book Award), The Basque History of the World, Salt: A World
History and a short story collection The White Man in the Tree (all
published by Cape and Vintage). He lives in New York City with his wife
and daughter.
