Miami and the Siege of Chicago Mailer Norman
Miami and the Siege of Chicago Mailer Norman In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today's bitterly divided…
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago Mailer Norman
In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today's bitterly divided country arose. Kennedy had just been assassinated. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F.
But when the Democrats backed Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupted. In August, the Republican Party met in Miami and picked Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. Antiwar protesters filled the streets and the police ran amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television--and captured in these pages by one of America's fiercest intellects.Praise for Miami and the Siege of Chicago "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial