1968: Marching in the Streets

by Tariq Ali, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Susan Watkins

Book Overview

It was arguably the most significant year in recent history, changing our political landscape, our view of the world, and our emotional lives forever. This unique commemoration of 1968 brings to life... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684853604
• ISBN13: 9780684853604
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

A refreshing look at an amazing year

The authors say their book is simply a chronicle of 1968. But chronicles are rarely written with such deft dramatic irony, nor are they usually so ebullient or scattered with jokes. Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins have done something which is a challenge to any historian: they have made utopian rebellion intelligible. The international span makes this book a unique record: Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland as well as women's liberation and Paris, Prague and Vietnam. The utopian ideas of 1968---that knowledge should be accessible, work democratised and time claimed for living and loving, not just for making money--are even more relevant 30 years on.