Recapturing the ’60s, in DayGlo Colors
di Adam Liptak The New York Times
MORE than a year after the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago transformed the culture wars from metaphor to mayhem, Norman Mailer was still trying to make sense of what had happened.
Mr. Mailer, under oath as a witness in a federal conspiracy trial, recalled a 1967 conversation with Jerry Rubin, the Yippie leader and provocateur, about a “youth festival” that groups opposed to the Vietnam War were planning as a convention counterpoint.
“I was overtaken with the audacity of the idea,” Mr. [...]
di Adam Liptak, articolo completo (8139 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 24 Febbraio 2008
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