Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968

ISBN-13: 9780190844790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

J. Samuel Walker

Opis

Most of 14th Street is Gone takes an in-depth look at the enormously destructive riots that erupted in Washington, DC in April 1968. This book offers an unprecedently detailed account of the riots that raged in the nation's capital from the perspectives of rioters, victims, law enforcement officials, soldiers, and government leaders.

Recenzje

Samuel Walker's "Most of 14th Street Is Gone" details the tick tock of events that occurred during the Washington, DC riots of 1968....Walker painstakingly retraces the steps and missteps, of those days that sent our nation's capital up in flames 50 years ago.

O autorze

J. Samuel Walker is a prize-winning historian who has published several books on President Truman and the use of the atomic bomb, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the creation of March Madness.