Thus 1968 was for me the beginning of both my professional life and the relationship that evolved into my marital life. Also, on Februdue to a string of unlikely coincidences I met the woman who five years eight months later became my wife. In January of 1968 I graduated from college with my BS engineering degree which awarded me the necessary credentials to land a job qualifying me to receive an occupational deferment from the military draft. It's sobering to realize that we are nearing the 50th anniversary of that fateful year. I was attracted to this book by the anticipation that it would provide a time capsule of an era when the baby boomer generation was young and crazy. Coincidentally it was a remarkable year for the rest of the world as well. The year 1968 was memorable for me personally. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people–and led us to where we are today. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television's influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Prague Spring the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive Black Power the generation gap avant-garde theater the upsurge of the women's movement and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of the pivotal year of 1968, when television's influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world.

1968 by mark kurlansky