1968 encompasses the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics, assassinations, riots, demonstrations and the media, and shows us how we got to where we are today. Kurlansky brashly hails 1968 as 'the year that rocked the world' (his previous worldly titles include Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, Salt: a world history and The Basque. With 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, award-winning journalist Mark Kurlansky has written his magnum opus - a cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval, when television's impact on global events first became apparent, and when simultaneously - in Paris, Prague, London, Berkeley, and all over the globe - uprisings spontaneously occurred. Kurlansky shows how the coming of live television made 1968 the first global year. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the Tet offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the student rebellion that paralysed France, civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, and the birth of the women's movement. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr. But what impact did it have on today's political and social landscape? To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'A fascinating bining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' Uncut

1968 by mark kurlansky