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

Norman Mailer

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#2183 of 3,809 books · #117 in Politics & Current Affairs

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1969).

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
ISBN-13
9780241340547
Topics
1968 US presidential electionPolitical conventionsVietnam War protests

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