Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business Andrew Hussey, Financial TimesA thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that deserves to be dwelt on Andrew Marr, The Times1968 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 longerterm 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 antiwar marches in the United States to revolts against Soviet oppression in eastern Europe which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies that are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time. The book pursues the story into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that stemmed from 1968, and the brutal reactions from those in power that brought the era to an end.

Binding: Paperback;464 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: HB; Weight: 466 g; Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 26

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