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Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television, and captured in these pages by one of America's fiercest intellects.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN-139780241340530
eBay Product ID (ePID)24046466589
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Book TitleMiami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
AuthorNorman Mailer
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGovernment, Politics, Literary Theory, History
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorNorman Mailer
Series TitlePenguin Modern Classics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom