witness to the revolution by clara bingham

Woven together from one hundred original interviews, Witness to the Revolution provides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval in the words of those closest to the action-the activists, organizers, radicals, and resisters who manned the barricades of what Students for a Democratic Society leader Tom Hayden called “the Great Refusal.”

Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham’s unique oral history of that tumultuous time, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home, as it fought a long, futile war abroad. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society.

It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHĪs the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST.

The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution

Witness to the revolution by clara bingham