Overview
Welcome to 1968 — a revolution in a book. Essays, memoirs, and more by fourteen award-winning authors offer unique perspectives on one of the world’s most tumultuous years. Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested. In those intense months, generations battled and the world wobbled on the edge of some vast change that was exhilarating one day and terrifying the next. To capture that extraordinary year, editors Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti created an anthology that showcases many genres of nonfiction. Some contributors use a broad canvas, others take a close look at a moment, and matched essays examine the same experience from different points of view. As we face our own moments of crisis and division, 1968 reminds us that we’ve clashed before and found a way forward — and that looking back can help map a way ahead. With contributions by: Jennifer Anthony Marc Aronson Susan Campbell Bartoletti Loree Griffin Burns Paul Fleischman Omar Figueras Laban Carrick Hill Mark Kurlansky Lenore Look David Lubar Kate MacMillan Kekla Magoon Jim Murphy Elizabeth Partridge
Full Product Details
Author: Marc Aronson ,
Susan Campbell Bartoletti ,
Jeff Cummings ,
Adenrele Ojo
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
Imprint: Brilliance Audio
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 13.30cm
Weight: 0.181kg
ISBN: 9781978644243
ISBN 10: 1978644248
Publication Date: 11 September 2018
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Marc Aronson is the author and editor of many titles for young people, including War Is . . .: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk about War, coedited by Patty Campbell; Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies; Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal; and Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism, cowritten by Marina Budhos. He is part of the graduate faculty at Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the author of numerous picture books, novels, and nonfiction books for young people. Her nonfiction work includes Growing Up in Coal Country; Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850; Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow; and They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group. She is the recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Robert F. Sibert Medal and Honor, an Orbis Pictus Award and Honor, and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and has had a title named as a YALSA Award finalist. The recipient of the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Award for her body of nonfiction work, she teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University in Kentucky.
