1968
Year of Media Decision
3rd Edition
Published on 31. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-0-7658-0621-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Somerset
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
284 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7658-0621-5 (9780765806215)
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Person
Snyder, Robert
Content
Preface
Part I: War
1. The Turning Point That Wasn't
Daniel Hallin
2. Justified Doubts
David Halberstam
3. Unfortunate Stupidity
Winant Sidle
Part II: Politics
4. Reassessing the Winners and Losers
Jules Witcover
5. Dumping Johnson
Curtis Gans
6. Good Copy
Dan T. Carter
7. Enemas for Elephants
Robert Shogan
Part III: Race
8. The Kerner Legacy
Pamela Newkirk
9. Goals for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Loren Ghiglione
10. Optimism, Pessimism and the Kerner Report
Randall Kennedy
Part IV: Protest
11. A Generational Divide at Columbia
Robert Friedman
12. A New Birth in France
Claude-Jean Bertrand
13. The Czech Press-Fighting for Change
Madeleine K. Albright
14. The Nightmare of Tlatelolco
Raymundo Riva Palacio
Part V: Cultures, 1968 and 1998
15. The Transformation of Time Magazine
James L. Baughman
16. The Best of Times
Richard Reeves
17. Climbing Down from Olympus
Andrew Tyndall
18. Finding Ourselves in the New Journalism
John J. Pauly
19. An Unexpected Aeratio
Todd Gitlin
20. From Underground to Alternative
Abe Peck
Part VI: 1968 in Books
21. Heresies of Liberalism
Godfrey Hodgson
For Further Reading
Index
Part I: War
1. The Turning Point That Wasn't
Daniel Hallin
2. Justified Doubts
David Halberstam
3. Unfortunate Stupidity
Winant Sidle
Part II: Politics
4. Reassessing the Winners and Losers
Jules Witcover
5. Dumping Johnson
Curtis Gans
6. Good Copy
Dan T. Carter
7. Enemas for Elephants
Robert Shogan
Part III: Race
8. The Kerner Legacy
Pamela Newkirk
9. Goals for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Loren Ghiglione
10. Optimism, Pessimism and the Kerner Report
Randall Kennedy
Part IV: Protest
11. A Generational Divide at Columbia
Robert Friedman
12. A New Birth in France
Claude-Jean Bertrand
13. The Czech Press-Fighting for Change
Madeleine K. Albright
14. The Nightmare of Tlatelolco
Raymundo Riva Palacio
Part V: Cultures, 1968 and 1998
15. The Transformation of Time Magazine
James L. Baughman
16. The Best of Times
Richard Reeves
17. Climbing Down from Olympus
Andrew Tyndall
18. Finding Ourselves in the New Journalism
John J. Pauly
19. An Unexpected Aeratio
Todd Gitlin
20. From Underground to Alternative
Abe Peck
Part VI: 1968 in Books
21. Heresies of Liberalism
Godfrey Hodgson
For Further Reading
Index