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In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With "1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women's movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe. Everything was disrupted. In the Middle East, Yasir Arafat's guerilla organization rose to prominence . . . both the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennale were forced to shut down by protesters . . . the Kentucky Derby winner was stripped of the crown for drug use . . . the Olympics were a disaster, with the Mexican government having massacred hundreds of students protesting police brutality there . . . and the Miss America pageant was stormed by feminists carrying banners that introduced to the television-watching public the phrase "women's liberation." Kurlansky shows how the coming of live television made 1968 the first global year. It was the year that an amazed world watched the first live telecast from outer space, and that TV news expanded to half an hour. For the firsttime, Americans watched that day's battle-the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive-on the evening news.

Special Olympics - Special Olympics is an international organization that helps people with intellectual disabilities develop self confidence and social skills through sports training and competition. Special Olympics was created by Chicago Judge Ann McGlone Burke in the 1960s, with further materials and organizational support from Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

1968 International Special Olympics Games - The First International Special Olympics Games (Summer Special Olympics) were held in Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois.

Loyola University Chicago Rome Center - Loyola University Chicago Rome Center is a campus of Loyola University Chicago in Rome, Italy. The Rome Center was founded in January of 1962, on the site of the Olympic Village for the 1960 Summer Olympics.

1904 Summer Olympics - The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in Saint Louis, Missouri in the United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904. The fellow American city of Chicago had won the original bid to host the games, but the Louisiana Purchase Exposition would not accept another international event in the same timeframe.

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