![]() They're trying to destroy everything I've worked for - for myself, my wife, and my children." I desperately wish it was possible."Īnd, several months after that, an ordinary Chicago ad salesman would be telling Time magazine, "I'm getting to feel like I'd actually enjoy going out and shooting some of these people. "After Chicago I changed from being a pacifist to the realization that we had to defend ourselves. "You practice shooting an M1 yourself, don't you?" the prosecutor asked her. Five years later, a pretty young Quaker girl from Philadelphia, a winner of a Decency Award from the Kiwanis Club, was cross-examined in the trial of seven Americans charged with conspiring to start a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. According to the pundits, America was more united and at peace with itself than ever. This is a book about how that happened, and why.Īt the start of 1965, when those eight years began, blood and fire weren't supposed to be a part of American culture and politics. In the eight years in between, the battle lines that define our culture and politics were forged in blood and fire. Nixon won a strikingly similar landslide - 60.67 percent and 520 electoral college votes. In 1972, the Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Johnson won practically the biggest landslide in American history, with 61.05 percent of the popular vote and 486 of 538 electoral college votes. In 1964, the Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon B. ![]()
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