Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s by Viorst, Milton

Description: Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s by Viorst, Milton- HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD - COPYRIGHT 1979 - PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER - 591 PAGES - BOOK SIZE 6 1/2 X 9 1/2.. Although written about a period in US history more than 50 years ago, these comments on the dust jacket flap are still "A people who had taken for granted a collective commitment to public order was suddenly stunned by the fragility of its institutions and the assaults on the values they represented. This is the story of how Americans for the first time took to the streets, sometimes the tens of thousands, to resolve disputes once left to the established governmental process." This book recreates the era. in all its contradictions, through interviews with fourteen men, Including Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Black activists likes E.D. Nixon, John Lewis, James Farmer, Stokely Carmichael, and more. The fact that all of those interviewed were men highlights one difference between that era and ours.

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Type: Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s

Era: 1979

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Features: Dust Jacket

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: Fire in the Streets

Author: Milton Viorst

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: United States / 20th Century

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Year: 1980

Genre: Non-Classifiable, History