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No one was killed : the Democratic National Convention, August 1968 / John Schultz ; with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schultz, John, 1932- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (U.S.).
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.).
- Democratic National Convention.
- Riots--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Riots.
- Radicals--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Radicals.
- Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- While other writers contemplated the events of the 1968 Chicago riots from the safety of their hotel rooms, John Schultz was in the city streets, being threatened by police, choking on tear gas, and listening to all the rage, fear, and confusion around him. The result, No One Was Killed, is his account of the contradictions and chaos of convention week, the adrenalin, the sense of drama and history, and how the mainstream press was getting it all wrong. "A more valuable factual record of events than the city’s white paper, the Walker Report, and Theodore B. White’s Making of a President combined."—Book Week "As a reporter making distinctions between Yippie, hippie, New Leftist, McCarthyite, police, and National Guard, Schultz is perceptive; he excels in describing such diverse personalities as Julian Bond and Eugene McCarthy."—Library Journal "High on my short list of true, lasting, inspired evocations of those whacked-out days when the country was fighting a phantasmagorical war (with real corpses), and police under orders were beating up demonstrators who looked at them funny."—Todd Gitlin, from the foreword
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION TO CONFRONTATION
- THE WEEK BEFORE THE CONVENTION: PREPARATORY CONFRONTATIONS
- SUNDAY: OVERTHROW
- MONDAY: THE BEAST AND THE HUNT
- TUESDAY: THE "DEMANDS OF REVOLUTION
- WEDNESDAY: WAR
- THURSDAY: EXILE
- FRIDAY
- IN THE MONTHS AFTERWARD
- AFTERWORD, 2008
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-76107-X
- OCLC:
- 1191863812
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