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Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Norman Mailer

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television, and captured in these pages by one of America's fiercest intellects.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9780241340547
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
1968 US presidential electionPolitical conventionsVietnam War protests

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