Read Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

Lawrence Roberts

4.9/5 (34226 ratings)

Description:A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington.They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it.Longtime Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored public and private archives, and newfound White House transcripts, recreates these largely forgotten events through the eyes of dueling characters. Woven into the story too are now-familiar names including John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers.It began with a bombing inside the US Capitol—a still-unsolved case to which Roberts brings substantial new information. To prevent the Mayday Tribe’s guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the army and marines. Riot squads swept through the city, arresting more than 12,000 people. As a young female public defender led a thrilling legal battle to free the detainees, Nixon and his men took their first steps down the road to the Watergate scandal and the implosion of the presidency.Mayday 1971 is the ultimately inspiring story of a season when our democracy faced grave danger, and survived.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest. To get started finding Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN

Description: A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington.They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it.Longtime Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored public and private archives, and newfound White House transcripts, recreates these largely forgotten events through the eyes of dueling characters. Woven into the story too are now-familiar names including John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers.It began with a bombing inside the US Capitol—a still-unsolved case to which Roberts brings substantial new information. To prevent the Mayday Tribe’s guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the army and marines. Riot squads swept through the city, arresting more than 12,000 people. As a young female public defender led a thrilling legal battle to free the detainees, Nixon and his men took their first steps down the road to the Watergate scandal and the implosion of the presidency.Mayday 1971 is the ultimately inspiring story of a season when our democracy faced grave danger, and survived.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest. To get started finding Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

More Books

Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense

A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense

Tuscany in Mind: From Byron and the Brownings to Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, and Penelope Fitzgerald--Two Centuries of Great Writers Seduced by Tuscany

Tuscany in Mind: From Byron and the Brownings to Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, and Penelope Fitzgerald--Two Centuries of Great Writers Seduced by Tuscany

The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin

The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee_89 IGCSE-O Level Exam Style Questions_A Question Bank: 89 IGCSE-O Level Exam Style Questions for Practice

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee_89 IGCSE-O Level Exam Style Questions_A Question Bank: 89 IGCSE-O Level Exam Style Questions for Practice

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

Unfettered (Unfettered, #1)

Unfettered (Unfettered, #1)

T. E. Lawrence to Robert Graves - Self Written Obituary

T. E. Lawrence to Robert Graves - Self Written Obituary

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin