Reframing 1968

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Separated into three sections, Reframing 1968 cleverly refrains from a predictable plod through the overfamiliar events of the year. Instead, the collection's authors rethink and reposition 1968 in terms of both its context and its meaning ... Consistently fascinating, Reframing 1968 is an excellent primer for readers seeking both a guide to this crucial year and a wider examination of major trends in American social, cultural and political history. It deserves a large audience. -- Joe Street, Northumbria University * History Today * In Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity, editors Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham offer a percipient volume of essays exploring the social and cultural cross-currents in the making of an iconic year and decade ... Through its robust investigation of the socio-economic dimensions of power and protest, Reframing 1968 complicates and enhances our understanding of 1968 as a unique inflection point in history - and one still contested in academic, social and political circles. -- Jeff Roquen * LSE Review of Books * This is a superb collection with solid scholarship and lively writing appealing to specialist and non-specialist alike. -- Lilian Calles Barger * U.S. Intellectual History Blog * Few years have so stirred, divided, and haunted America as 1968: a war gone horribly wrong, revered leaders assassinated, ghettoes on fire, social movements oscillating wildly between hope and despair. The contributors to this stellar collection both recreate the intensity of that moment and incisively assess its significance for all that has happened since. Deeply probing, unsettling, and illuminating. -- Gary Gerstle, Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge