| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 304 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- [pt. 1]. Narratives -- 1. Making Yippie! -- 2. Politics of laughter -- 3. Gandhi and guerrilla -- 4. Mobilizing in molasses -- 5. Mayor and the meaning of clout -- 6. City of broad shoulders -- 7. Streets belong to the people -- [pt. 2]. Analyses -- 8. Inside Yippie! -- 9. Thinning about the Mobe and Chicago '68 -- 10. Public feelings -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago--an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists--the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural ex. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Riots -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
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Riots. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Political conventions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
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Political conventions. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1963-1969 |
| Subject |
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
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Radicalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
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Radicalism. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1875 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Chicago sixty-eight |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Farber, David R. Chicago '68. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988 9780226238005 (DLC) 87019071 (OCoLC)16278125 |
| ISBN |
9780226237992 (electronic book) |
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0226237990 (electronic book) |
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9780226238005 |
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0226238008 |
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0226238008 (cloth) |
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9780226238012 |
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0226238016 (paperback) |
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