1968: the rise and fall of the new American Revolution

"Yippie!" : Abbie, Jerry, and the politics of play

"Hell no! They shouldn't go!" : Dr. Spock's children

"We had to destroy the town in order to save it" : the impact of the Tet Offensive

"The impossible dream" : the new politics

"We shall overcome" : the dreamer

"We all want to change the world" : springtime of the young rebels

"Burn, baby, burn" : bearing witness and the Boston Five

"You say you want a revolution" : radical politics and the counterculture

"There's a man with a gun over there" : the politics of assassination

"The whole world is watching : czechago"

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T" : people power

"The personal is political" : sexual revolutions

"Goin' up the country" : the new environmentalism

"Your day, of course, is going to be over soon" : the backlash

"The revolution will not be televised" : legacies and conclusion

Appendix A: List of abbreviations.