1968: The Year that Rocked the World

Mark Kurlansky

Jonathan Cape, 2004 - History - 441 pages

It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the anti-war movement and the Tet Offensive, the student rebellion that paralyzed France, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the beginning of the end for the USSR.

About the author

Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 1968: The Year that Rocked the World
• Author: Mark Kurlansky
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2004
• ISBN: 0224062514, 9780224062510
• Length: 441 pages
• Subjects: History / Modern / 20th Century / General; History / United States / 20th Century; History / World