![]() ![]() This is the best sixties book since "Edie." Evan Thomas, author of "Being Nixon" How the hell did that happen? Clara Bingham, a gifted reporter with a great sense of story, tells us in this moving, funny, horrifying, clarifying book. The cities and campuses were blowing up, the races and generations were at war, sex, drugs, and violence gripped our young. ![]() As we live through a new moment of political turmoil, it s critical that we revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urgent, and revolutionary. ![]() Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Carry Me Home"Īt once reliving and reflecting on the end of the 1960s, the voices in "Witness to the Revolution" provide a compelling history and an authentic testimony of a turbulent time. "Witness to the Revolution" is to the counterculture what Howell Raines s "My Soul Is Rested" is to the civil rights movement, a pageant of humanness that induces throat-clogging wonder at then and now. Jane Mayer, author of "Dark Moneyįor those who missed the sixties (like most of us, whether demographically or spiritually), this vital book goes a long way toward explaining the original wound that festers in our culture wars still. Whether you lived through this period or want to know what you missed, this is a popular history everyone should read. Clara Binghamhas captured the lightning of the 1960s in a jar, where it blows the reader s socks off. ![]() "Witness to the Revolution "is vivid, compelling, and addictively readable. Advance praise for "Witness to the Revolution" ![]()
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