To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.

In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people–and led us to where we are today.

马克·科兰斯基，《宗派评论》(Partisan Reviews)专栏作家，并经常为《国际先驱导报》、《芝加哥论坛报》及《纽约时报杂志》撰写文章。主要作品有《巴斯克人的世界史》(The Basque History of the World：The Story of a Nation)；《被选择的少数：欧洲犹太人的复兴》(A Chosen Few：The Resurrection of European Jewry)、《非暴力主义：一种危险观念的历史》(Nonviolence：The History of a DanKerous Idea)等。此外，他的专著《鳕鱼》(Cod：A BioKraphy of the Fish that Changed the World)获得詹姆斯·比尔德食品写作优秀奖。