Miami and the Siege of Chicago
An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
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Publisher Description
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run 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.
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Morey sounds too earnest and boyish to be the voice of Norman Mailer, but he has a masterly grasp of Mailer's rhythms and long, staccato sentences stuffed with similes and metaphors. Thus the listener can easily grasp the meaning of Mailer's provocative 1960s New Journalism. Morey manages to express the intensity of Mailer's visions and views of "the journalist" (as Mailer calls himself in the book). It's fun to think what Mailer would be writing about the 2016 election, and enlightening and entertaining to share his experience of the turmoil and violence that encompassed the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A Random House paperback.
