
Fifty years ago, America changed forever. 1968 saw the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King J. and Robert Kennedy, the riotous Democratic convention in Chicago and the presidential election of Richard Nixon. Charles Kaiser examines this year of immense change in his reissued book 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation. Hendrik Hertzberg also joins us to discuss his new introduction for the book, which is published partially in The Guardian. Hertzberg is the editorial director of The Nation Institute and a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker.
Charles Kaiser will be in conversation with Clara Bingham on April 19 at 7 pm at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble (2289 Broadway).
This segment is guest hosted by Alison Stewart.