One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation - Hardcover
by Patrick Parr
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Chicago Review PressISBN-13:9781641601788ISBN-10:1641601787UPC:9781641601788Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:United States, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCJBRTSPYB
"Masterfully researched and beautifully written, One Week in America is . . . an important piece of history full of larger-than-life characters and unlikely heroes." --Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
The major players in this story are names that just about every American has heard of: Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King Jr., Norman Mailer, Lyndon B. Johnson, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, William F. Buckley Jr.
For one chaotic week in 1968, college students, talented authors, and presidential candidates grappled with major events. The result was one of the most historic literary festivals of the twentieth century One Week in America is a day-by-day narrative of the 1968 Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival and the national events that grabbed the spotlight that April week. On one particular week, sixties politics and literature came together on campus.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Chicago Review PressISBN-13:9781641601788ISBN-10:1641601787UPC:9781641601788Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:United States, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCJBRTSPYB
Patrick Parr is the author of The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age, and a history columnist for Japan Today. Other work has appeared in The Atlantic, Politico, American History Magazine, and the Boston Globe. In 2014 he was awarded an Artist Trust Fellowship for his literary career.
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