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

by Lawrence Roberts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328766721
• ISBN13: 9781328766724
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 9.1"