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Language: en
Pages: 352
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-08-17 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and politi
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Pages: 362
Pages: 362
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In August 1968, Democrats gather at their National Convention in Chicago to debate a platform for a deeply divided party. Factions are split over issues such as
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
While other writers contemplated the events of the 1968 Chicago riots from the safety of their hotel rooms, John Schultz was in the city streets, being threaten
Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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