1968

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<span><span>The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50</span><span><sup>th</sup></span><span> anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJs withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles Revolution, the Stones Street Fighting Man,</span><span>The Population Bomb</span><span>, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagans belated bid, Wallaces American Independent Party campaign, Love It or Leave It, and the backlash that set the stage, at years end, for Richard Milhous Nixons ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.</span></span>

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<span><span>Robert C. Cottrell</span><span>is professor of history and American Studies at Cal State Chico and has written over twenty books, including</span><span> Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll</span><span> (R&amp;L 2015).<br><br></span><span>Blaine T. Browne</span><span>is Emeritus Professor at Broward College and is the author of numerous articles and books including</span><span>Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History, Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History</span><span>, and</span><span>Uncertain Order: The World in the Twentieth Century.</span><span> He presently teaches at Oklahoma City University.</span></span>

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