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Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest (Hardcover)
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Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest (Hardcover)
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A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US
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.
Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of
interviews, unexplored 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 U.S. Capitol--a still-unsolved case to which Roberts
brings new information. To prevent the Mayday Tribe's
guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the
military. 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.
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