A Nation on Fire： America in the Wake of the King Assassination 国家危机：马丁·路德金的被刺对美国的唤醒
分类: 图书,进口原版书,人文社科 Non Fiction ,
作者： Clay Risen著
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出版时间： 2009-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 292印刷时间：开本： 16开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780470177105包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Clay Risen, formerly an editor at the New Republic, is the founding managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He's also written for Smithsonian, Slate, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
内容简介
A few hours after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at a Memphis motel, violent mobs had looted and burned several blocks of Washington a few miles north of the White House, centered around the U Street commercial district. Quick action by D.C. police quelled the violence, but shortly before noon the next day, looting and arson broke out anew -- not just along U Street, but in two other commercial districts as well.
Over the next several days, the immediate crisis of the riots was matched by an equally ominous sense among the nation's political leadership that they were watching the final dissolution of the 1960s liberal dream. For many whites who watched flames overtake city after city -- Washington, Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City -- the April riots were an unfathomable and deeply troubling response during what should have been a time of national mourning. To them the rioters were little better than common criminals. But a look at the average rioter complicates such conclusions: they were primarily young (under 25) and male, but most made a decent salary, had a better than average education, and had no previous arrest record. In interviews and testimonies afterward, rioters recalled a sense of release, of striking back at the "system."
To say that the riots meant different things to different people would be exceedingly trite if it weren't also exceedingly true. In ways large and small, the King riots solidified attitudes and trends that destroyed the momentum behind racial progress, fatally wounded postwar domestic liberalism, created new divisions among blacks and whites, and condemned urban America to decades of poverty and crime. This book will explain why they occurred, how they played out, and what they meant.
目录
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 King, Johnson, and the Terrible, Glorious Thirty-first Day of March
2 April 4: Before the Bullet
3 April 4: The News Arrives
4 April 4: U and Fourteenth
5 April 5: Midnight Interlude
6 April 5: “Any Man’s Death Diminishes Me”
7 April 5: “Once That Line Has Been Crossed”
8 April 5: “Official Disorder on Top of Civil Disorder”
9 April 5: The Occupation of Washington
10 April 5: “There Are No Ghettos in Chicago”
11 April 6: Roadblocks
12 April 6: An Eruption in Baltimore
13 April 7: Palm Sunday
14 April 8: Bluff City on Edge
15 April 9: A Country Rent Asunder
16 April 10 and 11: Two Speeches
17 A Summer Postscript
18 1969 and After
Notes
Index
