CHICAGO YIPPIE! ’68 / 1968 Convention Riots / O'Brien / CHICAGO 7 / 150+ Photos

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CHICAGO YIPPIE! ‘68 / Memoir of 1968 Convention Riots / Photos / NEW
CHICAGO YIPPIE! ’68 / Memoir of 1968 Convention Riots / NEW
Brand New! From Garret Room Books, “Chicago Yippie! ’68” is Justin O’Brien’s true account of his experiences as a 17-year-old boy caught up in the street demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and his encounters with some of the “Chicago 7” (originally the “Chicago 8”) before they were so-named. What was to begin as a “Festival of Life” and protest against the war in Vietnam, turned into a “police riot,” as characterized by The Walker Report, the official investigation of what happened that week. Epilogue also touches on the “Conspiracy Trial” of the Chicago Eight (including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Black Panther Bobby Seale, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines) in the Federal courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman. By Justin O’Brien. Supplemented by interviews with other participants, plus maps, and MORE THAN 150 PHOTOS—many never before seen. 21 pages in color. SEE PHOTOS.
Measures: 5-1/2” x 8-1/2 inches long.
From a smoke-free environment.
“A fine, fine book. Anyone who was alive and aware and about in 1968 will have their memories massaged and other memories evoked by reading Justin O’Brien’s Chicago Yippie! ’68...one young man’s journey through the time coming up to and culminating in the crazyness of August 1968 when the Democrats came to town.”
—Rick Kogan, WGN radio
“This book, Justin’s story...is part celebration, part explanation of a time of turbulent hope and essential unrest.”
—Patricia McNair, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Columbia College, Chicago
“Just how severe — and life threatening — this all was some 50 years ago is captured in a recently published book called Chicago Yippie! ’68....The book is filled with vivid detail of the violence that occurred in Lincoln and Grant parks in Chicago’s downtown and along the streets as young people and many older supporters marched to show their solidarity to oppose Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s nomination over peace candidate Eugene McCarthy. O’Brien does an excellent job, both with words and pictures, to describe just how dangerous the protests became as the convention week wore on.”
—Dave Zweifel, editor emeritus, The Capital Times
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