{"product_id":"wounded-galaxies-1968-joan-hawkins-9780253076076","title":"Wounded Galaxies 1968: Geopolitics and Culture Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWounded Galaxies 1968\u003c\/i\u003e examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago; the Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia; the Tlatelolco massacre of students in Mexico City; France's Mai 1968; and further uprisings across Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. The Vietnam War was nearing its peak with the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai massacre; Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Yet it was also the year of\u003ci\u003e Rosemary's Baby \u003c\/i\u003eand the Beatles' \u003ci\u003eWhite Album\u003c\/i\u003e; Apollo 8 became the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon; and the first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held at Chicago's Soldier Field. Combining original contemporary documents with scholarly essays and memoirs, \u003ci\u003e Wounded Galaxies 1968\u003c\/i\u003e asks readers to consider the geopolitical alongside the cultural, inviting us to make some of the same intellectual and emotional connections that contemporaries did back then. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging cultural critique of a tumultuous year, \u003ci\u003eWounded Galaxies 1968\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that, while changing the world proved frustratingly difficult, changing life was largely successful with significant transformations across society, education, and the arts-changes whose impacts have continued to be felt in the United States and Western Europe well into the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253076072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253076076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.14d","brand":"Joan Hawkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997465915647,"sku":"9780253076076","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wounded-galaxies-1968-joan-hawkins-9780253076076","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}