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Book Synopsis''Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business'' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times
''A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that deserves to be dwelt on'' Andrew Marr, The Times
1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications; terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968. Bill Clinton and even Tony Blair are, in many ways, the product of that year.
The Long ''68 is a striking and original attempt half a century on to show how these events - from anti-war marches in the United States to revolts against Soviet oppression in eastern Europe - which in so
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Deeply researched, richly detailed and thoroughly absorbing -- John Gray * New Statesman *
Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business -- Andrew Hussey * Financial Times *
