The Battle for Peoples Park Berkeley 1969 Book Review

The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969

Hardcover, 8.5 10 11, with over 300 full-color and black-and-white images, 456 pages.

ISBN: 9781597144681.

In bystander testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs,The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Boxing for People'southward Park. In Apr 1969, a few Berkeley activists planted the first tree on a University of California-endemic, abased urban center block on Telegraph Artery. Hundreds of people from all over the metropolis helped build the park as an expression of a politics of joy. The University was appalled, and warned that unauthorized use of the land would not be tolerated; and on May xv, which would soon be known as Encarmine Thursday, a vehement struggle erupted, involving thousands of people. Hundreds were arrested, martial law was declared, and the National Guard was ordered by then-Governor Ronald Reagan to crush the uprising and to occupy the unabridged metropolis. The police fired shotguns confronting unarmed students. A military helicopter gassed the campus indiscriminately, causing schoolchildren miles away to vomit. Ane homo died from his wounds. Another was blinded. The vicious overreaction by Reagan helped catapult him into national prominence. Fifty years on, the question yet lingers: Who owns the Park?

Reviews

"Splendid…reads like a gut punch." Clara Bingham, The Guardian

"This volume is a definitive business relationship of the battle for People'south Park, a 50th anniversary gem." Paul Von Blum, Truthdig

"Resplendent…. A masterwork of history." Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch

"Dazzling." Gar Smith, Berkeley Daily Planet

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About the Authors

Tom Dalzell

Tom Dalzell has lived in Berkeley since 1984. He has worked as a lawyer for the labor movement for his entire developed life. He has written extensively about slang. He has been methodically walking the streets of Berkeley since belatedly 2012 in search of quirky stuff, blogging about it since 2013.The New York Times described him every bit looking "as well strait-laced to be the czar of the eccentric." He accepts this verdict.

Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin is the author of numerous books, includingThe Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. A onetime professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, he is currently a professor of journalism and folklore at Columbia University.

Steve Wasserman

Steve Wasserman, raised in Berkeley and a graduate of Cal, is Heyday'south publisher. He is a former editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House and publisher of Colina & Wang and The Noonday Printing at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has worked with many authors and published numerous books, including, most recently, Greil Marcus'sThe History of Stone 'n' Roll in X Songs, Martha Hodes'sMourning Lincoln, David Thomson'sWhy Acting Matters, and ii posthumous volumes of the late critic Ralph J. Gleason's musical and political writings. A founder of the Los Angeles Found for the Humanities at the University of Southern California, Wasserman was a primary builder of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books during the nine years he served as editor of theLos Angeles Times Book Review (1996–2005). He began his career every bit an banana editor to Warren Hinckle at Francis Ford Coppola'sCity Magazine of San Franciscoand went on to become deputy editor of the Sunday Opinion department and Op-Ed Page of theLos Angeles Times (1978–1983) before becoming editor in main of New Republic Books, based in Washington, D.C., and New York. He was besides a partner in Kneerim & Williams, a Boston-based literary agency, and represented, among others, Robert Scheer, Christopher Hitchens, David Thomson, Linda Ronstadt, and Placido Domingo. He has written for many publications, includingThe Village Voice,Threepenny Review,The Nation,The New Republic,The American Bourgeois,The Progressive,Columbia Journalism Review,Los Angeles Times, and the (London)Times Literary Supplement.[Writer photo credit: Dennis Anderson]

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The Battle for Peoples Park Berkeley 1969 Book Review