![]() ![]() 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. 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. Kurlansky’s 1968: The Year That Rocked the World does not just examine the USA during 1968 but looks at what was happening throughout the entire world. 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. ![]() The Tet Offensive, a military defeat for the Viet Cong (they were never to mount a cohesive campaign again) was a media victory for them. Videotape immediacy and satellite transmission meant that the war could now be seen almost live from the battleground. But what impact did it have on today's political and social landscape? 1968 was the beginning of a new era in television. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'A fascinating bining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' Uncut ![]()
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