![]() ![]() The voices speak for themselves.Īs in Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States-which presented a string of primary sources showing what some of the most marginalized people thought and wrote at the time of key historical events-there is no pretence of summarizing a tumultuous era. She weaves the interviews together with only the occasional footnote or brief chapter introduction. Bingham interviews about 100 people, from actor-activist Jane Fonda to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein to government officials and those who played key roles in marches on Washington and sit-ins at universities. This book captures the raw emotion of those earlier decades through first-hand recollections of the period from August 1969 to August 1970: the ecstasy of Woodstock, the tragedy of the Kent State massacre. But the core issues that motivated millions of young people in the ’60s and ’70s are remarkably similar to those driving today’s youth. ![]() Today it’s Black Lives Matter, not the Black Panthers, and Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations, not the Pentagon Papers. ![]()
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