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By any measure, it was a remarkable year. Mentioning the Tet offensive, the My Lai massacre, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic convention in Chicago, and the Prague Spring and its backlash gives only the merest impression of how eventful and transformative the year must have felt at the time. As Kurlansky (Cod, Salt, etc.) has made the phrase "changed the world" a necessary component of subtitles for books about mundane objects, his choice to focus on a year that so "rocked" the world is appropriate. To read this book is to be transported to a very specific past at once more naive and more mature than today; as Kurlansky puts it, it was a time of "shocking modernism" and "quaint innocence," a combination less contradictory than it first appears. The common genesis of demonstrations occurring in virtually every Western nation was the war in Vietnam. Without shortchanging the roles of race and age, Kurlansky shrewdly emphasizes the rise of television as a near-instantaneous (and less packaged than today) conduit of news as key to the year's unfolding. To his credit, Kurlansky does not overdo Berkeley at the expense of Paris or Warsaw or Mexico City. The gains and costs of the new ethic of mass demonstration are neatly illustrated by the U.S. presidential campaign: the young leftists helped force the effective abdication of President Lyndon Johnson - and were rewarded with "silent majority" spokesman Richard Nixon. 1968 is a thorough and loving (perhaps a bit too loving of the boomer generation) tapestry - or time capsule.
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The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy; riots at the Democratic National Convention; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; women's liberation; and student uprisings from Warsaw to Berkeley. Mark Kurlansky can be forgiven for saying that the momentous events of 1968 transformed us and gave us the world in which we live today. His book on the subject is absorbing, whether you agree or disagree with his thesis. English actor Christopher Cazenove reads with evident interest, and just enough verve to emphasize the excitement of events without overdramatizing. He highlights the repetitive rhythm of Kurlansky's writing in a way that makes it easy to listen to, not metronomic. Even his occasional British pronunciation of an American name is all right; after all, this is an international story--as much about Warsaw as it is about Berkeley. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 An absorbing overview of an important year, Jui 9 2004
This review is from: 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (Hardcover)
The twelve months of 1968 represented a major turning point in the social and political development of many countries worldwide. Kurlansky has written an absorbing book on a pivotal year. While he covers what happened in a lot of places and provides considerable information about the trend of unrest experienced in diverse societies, it's a launching pad for further study. Another excellent book on the situation in 1968, with a focus on the events before and after the decisive March 1968 student protests in Poland, is "Forced Out: The Fate of Polish Jewry in Communist Poland."
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5.0étoiles sur 5 If you were there you understand, if not, .....!, Mai 20 2004
Par W. P. Strange "Bill's shelf" (Williamstown, MA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (Hardcover)
For those of us who were there to witness these great shifts in the world and America, who saw the tragedy of murdered heroes, a war no one understood and the divisive political atmosphere that permeated almost every day, 1968 serves as a reminder that everything old is new again. As a college student at the time the world seemed like it was exploding every evening on the news, and the future looked grim. We were the children of "The greatest generation" and the world our parents helped save for us didn't seem to be living up to its promise, Camelot was a pipedream.

Reflecting on many of those events it is easy to see how they compare with today, especially the similarities of the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq. Both were politically motivated by corporate power mongers, and seem to serve no purpose other than to enrich a few. The gross inequities of the draft - the day after I graduated from a state university my draft notice was delivered, and dozens of my friends suffered the same fate, yet not a single graduate of Harvard, Yale or Princeton was ever drafted into the Vietnam war - unlike John Kerry who enlisted, they used money, political favors and connections only open to the "favorite sons" - like Bush, Cheney and Rove - were unjust, unfair and discriminatory to the extreme. The hard lessons of that time are lost on those very same "favorite sons" who still extoll the extremism of a right wing sense of entitlement.

Kurlansky admits he is subjective, but it was difficult to live through those horrific events and not become jaded, and subjective. Du Pont in 1968 and Hilliburton in 2004 is the biggest example of the failure of our leader to understand the lessons of history, and Kurlansky is right to put it out there for others, too young to have witnessesed it to gain at least some understanding of their parents' experiences and current world views.

This is not great writing or even great history, it is best viewed as a window into a year when almost everything changed, and not always for the better. This should be required reading for every member of the Bush administration and anyone who thinks that history does not repeat itself - but of course we know Dubya doesn't read, so maybe Laura can read it to him - and soon.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 When 1968 becomes 2004, Mai 11 2004
Par Brent Green "Author of Marketing to Leading-E... (Denver, CO United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (Hardcover)
Something changed in 1968. It is called "almost everything." The author takes readers through every wrenching month of that unprecedented year, drawing on painstaking research and the art of a very fine and deliberate writer. More than any other achievement, of which there are many in this book, Kurlansky gives his readers a chance to better understand today ... right now. So much of our current national debates about Iraq, the Patriot Act, and our teetering moral authority in world affairs, springboards in some way from that year. We were given many lessons then, some forgotten, many resurfacing as we again find our nation confronting major obstacles in world affairs. 1968 surely requires the critical reader to consider what we learned then and what it means now. This is a book about history ... repeating itself. Read it for greater context; read it for insights; but most of all, read it to examine the most crucial issues confronting a nation ... today.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A book of history: human, comprehensive, courageous
Mark Kurlansky has written the most important book ever published about one of this nation's most galvanizing, divisive, and imposing years in modern history. Read more
Publié le Mars 26 2004 par writergrad

5.0étoiles sur 5 If You Haven't Lived Through Read About It.
This a great look at the year 1968. The book covers student turmoil and events around the globe. This book is a great read for those of us feeling down about what's happening in... Read more
Publié le Mars 15 2004

3.0étoiles sur 5 That Was the Year That Was
There are years that are indelibly embedded in a nations psyche because of specific events. In the US, 1963 comes to mind. Read more
Publié le Mars 11 2004 par David J. Gannon

3.0étoiles sur 5 Yeah, right...like O.J. could have gotten into Cal
The author states on page 19 (of 381) that on January 1, 1968, a huge crowd watched O.J. Simpson rush for the University of California against Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Read more
Publié le Mars 9 2004

1.0étoiles sur 5 Old News
Part hagiography, part self congratulation, Kurlansky tells us the tale of a generation that changed the world so much that the world is now fundamentally the same as it was... Read more
Publié le Fév 27 2004 par Marcus Welch

5.0étoiles sur 5 Wonderful Book about a Turbulent Year
Though I wouldn't be born for years after the tragic night they killed Bobby Kennedy, I remember it well. My father was there. Read more
Publié le Fév 26 2004 par Tracy Oshima

3.0étoiles sur 5 1968
I didn't go beyond page 18 of Mark Kurlansky's 1968 because I wonder about the veracity of the content. Read more
Publié le Fév 20 2004 par Bobbie ElLaissi

1.0étoiles sur 5 This is a pop-history book
Kurlansky's commendable attempt to analyze turmoils of 1968 fails because of his unobjective leftist bias, and lack of deep background historical knowledge about the countries... Read more
Publié le Fév 9 2004

1.0étoiles sur 5 Waiting for my review to appear
I sent my rewiev of Kurlansky's book last night and I wonder where it will be posted. I pointed to a number of shortcomings that makes this book that is "about history",... Read more
Publié le Fév 9 2004

1.0étoiles sur 5 I disagree with historical facts
Mark Kurlansky makes virulent anti-Polish statements in his book, that are unacceptable for a publication that is supposed to have any historical value. Read more
Publié le Fév 8 2004 par pecunia777

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