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Charles Kaiser’s 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan), this is compulsively readable popular history. Now, fifty years later, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible, wonderful, and pivotal year in the story of America.
“Charles Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy’s race for the presidency.”—New York Times Book Review
“A chatty, personal view of the pivotal time . . . This account will bring back memories.”—Booklist
“Kaiser’s book is an evocative chronicle, a paean to the ‘Sixties’ generation by a member of the clan . . . His indictment of Eugene McCarthy—a chief theme—is persuasive.”—Library Journal