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Off the Shelf
By Stuart Roberts | Friday,
November 20, 2015
As fall arrived in 1967, America began to rattle with unrest.
The war in Vietnam was a clear failure. Stateside, an emergent counterculture
revolted. The body count soared. Washington machinated. Conspiracy and
paranoia entered daily life.
A few days in October of that year birthed two events
representative of that era’s political and cultural maelstrom. A disastrous
battle north of Saigon raged in Vietnam while the campus at the University of
Wisconsin erupted in protests. In They
Marched Into Sunlight, David Maraniss intertwines the stories of
both. READ
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