1968 - Alexander Bloom

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Auteur(s) : Alexander Bloom

Editeur : Oxford University Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2026

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 456.0

ISBN : 9780197793350

Résumé :

• Introduction: 1968-The Year The World Exploded


• Part I: The 1960s: Movements in Time and Space


• 1. Rumblings Beneath the Surface Calm: The 1950s as an Introduction to the 1960s


• 2. Civil Rights


• 3. The Student Movement and the New Left


• 4. Vietnam


• 5. The War at Home


• 6. Race and Race Thinking at Mid-Decade


• 7. The Counterculture


• 8. The Women's Movement


• 9. The Crossover Point: 1967-Coming to Terms with the 60s


• Part II: When the World Seemed To Explode


• 10. Saigon: The Tet Offensive


• 11 Portsmouth: The Democrats Divide-McCarthy, Kennedy, and LBJ


• 12 Martin Luther King: The Road to Memphis


• 13. Prague Spring


• 14. New York: The Columbia Strike


• 15. The Paris Student Strike


• 16. Robert Kennedy: The Road to Los Angeles


• 17. Washington: The Poor People's Campaign


• 18. Prague Summer


• 19. All Roads Lead to Chicago


• 20. Atlantic City: No More Miss America!


• 21. Mexico City: Olympic Glory and Wholesale Massacre


• 22. Epilogue: The Ebb Tide


• Conclusion: The Year That Shook The World


• Index

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Biographie:
Alexander Bloom is Professor of History, Emeritus at Wheaton College. His books include Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader, and Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. He was twice Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Intellectual and Cultural History at the Universita di Roma Tre, Rome. Bloom is a frequently consulted source on the 1960s, Vietnam, antiwar and protest movements, and the Iraqi conflict. He has been a guest commentator on PBS and NPR, as well as being interviewed by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, and numerous American newspapers, magazines, and radio stations.

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Sommaire:
It has been called the year that changed everything, the postwar watershed in which the forces that shaped public and private life erupted, everywhere and all at once--New York, Paris, Prague, Mexico City. Beginning with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in January and continuing through the inauguration of Richard Nixon as president the following January, 1968 witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the irresistible rise of a rebellious spirit that questioned every form of authority. Each month brought a fresh wave of upheaval with shared undercurrents---deep frustrations, bold aspirations, and a growing conviction that change, whether peaceful and violent, was inevitable. Political unrest, civil rights struggles, anti-war protests, generational shifts: the causes were manifold and complex, yet their convergence was unmistakable.

Alexander Bloom captures the explosive energy of a world in upheaval, illuminating how the events of 1968 were driven by youth movements, inspired by music and the subversive pull of countercultural ideals, all of which transcended borders. In Prague, young people tuned into Western radio, embracing the same sounds and messages reverberating through London and San Francisco. Styles of dress, personal expression, and radical ideals spread rapidly, fueled by an expanding media. The revolution was in fact being televised, making distant struggles immediate and personal, and turning local movements into global moments.

Together, these forces made 1968 a year unlike any before or any since. For many, it felt as if the ground beneath them had shifted. Political and social transformation seemed not just possible but imminent, across the nation and around the world. Not all the promises or expectations of that year bore fruit and the backlash it generated remains with us. Still, it marked an irrevocable turning point in world history. In 1968, the world didn't just change---it shook to its core....