About Miami and the Siege of Chicago
In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which todays bitterly divided country arose. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. In August, the Republican Party met in Miami and picked Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats backed Lyndon Johnsons ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupted. Antiwar protesters filled the streets and the police ran amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live televisionand captured in these pages by one of Americas fiercest intellects.