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1968 : Year of Media Decision, Paperback / softback Book

1968 : Year of Media Decision Paperback / softback

Edited by Robert Snyder

Paperback / softback

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Thirty years ago American political life was all relentless, painful, and confounding: the Tet Offensive brought new intensity to the Vietnam War; President Lyndon Johnson would not seek re-election; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated; student protests rocked France; a Soviet invasion ended "socialism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia; the Mexican government massacred scores of peaceful demonstrators; and Richard M.

Nixon was elected president. Any one of the events of 1968 bears claim to historical significance.

Together they set off shock waves that divided Americans into new and contending categories: hawks and doves, old and young, feminists and chauvinists, straights and hippies, blacks and whites, militants and moderates.

As citizens alive to their own time and as reporters responsible for making sense of it, journalists did not stand aside from the conflicts of 1968.

In their lives and in their work, they grappled with momentous issues--war, politics, race, and protest.

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