Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham
Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham
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Witness to the Revolution
Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

Author: Clara Bingham

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 18 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/21/2016


Synopsis

As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society. Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham's unique oral history of that tumultuous time, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home, as it fought a long, futile war abroad.

Woven together from one hundred original interviews, Witness to the Revolution provides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval in the words of those closest to the action—the activists, organizers, radicals, and resisters who manned the barricades of what Students for a Democratic Society leader Tom Hayden called "the Great Refusal."

About Clara Bingham

Clara Bingham is the author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (with Laura Leedy Gansler) and Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. She is a former Newsweek White House correspondent, and her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Talk, the Washington Monthly, Ms., and other publications. Bingham produced the 2011 documentary The Last Mountain. She lives in Manhattan and Brooklyn with her husband, three children, and three stepchildren.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

This book is a collection of first-person accounts of the period August 1969-August 1970. A range of voices are included - from draft resisters and activists to FBI agents - and it's remarkable how much occurred during this time frame - leak of the Pentagon Papers, the Kent State Shooting, Woodstock......more