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The Revolutionaries Inside the 1968 DNC Didn't Get Much Inknew

You've heard plenty lately about the action outside the '68 Democratic National Convention. How much do you know about what was going on inside?
Chicago Reader  |  Michael Miner  |  09-02-2008  |  Commentary

1968: A Wild Time in Madisonnew

Like the rest of the nation, the Wisconsin capital was awash in chaos, confusion, confrontation and change.
Isthmus  |  Stuart Levitan  |  08-26-2008  |  History

Demo Nights: Join the 45,000 Civilians Expected to Demonstrate Outside the DNCnew

Forty years after the 1968 convention and the corresponding riots, candidates are again facing an unpopular war and civil equality at the forefront of debate. The question is, are Democrats looking at a repeat for the 2008 convention this week in Denver?
Santa Fe Reporter  |  Dave Maass  |  08-22-2008  |  Politics

Norman Mailer's 1968 War Storiesnew

Mailer wrote his accounts of the 1968 national conventions on assignment for Harper's, and predicted a 40-year war with the emerging neo-cons. Alas, he was right about that.
Boston Phoenix  |  Charles Taylor  |  08-20-2008  |  Nonfiction

The Greats of '68new

It may not get its due, but 1968 helped alter rock's reality.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach  |  Lee Zimmerman  |  07-29-2008  |  Music

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