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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth -- issues that are as relevant today as they were decades ago.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A biography of Johnson, focusing on the years between 1961 and 1973 during which he served as President of the United States, discussing the legislation he successfully pushed through Congress, including Medicare and the Clean Air and Water Acts; his work on behalf of civil rights; and his anguish over Vietnam.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This book continues the author's examination of the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr., which begun in the author's previous book entitled: Orders to Kill, the truth behind the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"On the evening of April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By the end of the day, top-level army snipers were in position to knock him out if ordered. Two military officers were in place on the roof...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Examines the 1968 presidential election to evaluate its lasting influence on American politics and the Democratic Party, exploring the pivotal roles of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, two high-profile assassinations, and the Chicago riots.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalist John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years following JFK's assassination. Torn between...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In this book the author argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism. At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
After John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert Kennedyformerly Jack's no-holds-barred political warrioralmost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country's pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation; Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c.2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
In October 1967, history turned a corner. In a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control, marking the first time that a campus anti-war demonstration had turned violent. This "American Experience" film collects the first-person stories of American and Viet Cong...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Reaching for Glory lets us eavesdrop on LBJ's private, often tortured thoughts during the most crucial year of his presidency -- when his dreams of being hailed as the equal of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were destroyed by the war in Vietnam. As Reaching for Glory opens, LBJ is campaigning for the greatest presidential landslide in history. To win, he hands embarrassing secrets about Barry Goldwater to friendly reporters. When Johnson's...
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