The Golden Years 1968 [antikvár]

Welcome to The Golden Years and the earth-moving events which made 1968 one of this century's most memorable years. Sadly, and inevitably, the main headlines did not cany good news. The flower power summer of 1967 quickly gave way to the chill winds of dissent, protest, controversy - and sudden death. Assassins' bullets ended the lives of Dr Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy. The Vietnam War continued to claim its own increasing roll of casualties, the most notable of all being President Lyndon Johnson. Wearied by illness and the impossible strain of it all, he announced his retirement. Many French citizens wished thatPresident de Gaulle had done the same in December 1965 as his ahways autocratic manner gave way to a near-dictatorial approach to unions and students groups, and France dissolved into strikes, riots and a state of near anarchy.The people of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief months of the relative freedom brought them by the new government of the liberal communist leader, Alexander Dubfiek. Unfortunately, the communist regime in Moscow was not inclined to liberalism or freedom, and Soviet Army tanks rolled in to end the 'Prague Spring' and Czech dreams of a more open society. Unbelievably, there were tanks in the streets of Chicago too before the year's end when an anti-war