About this title: "A masterpiece about one of the dramatic historical events of our time." Cleveland PressAll of James A. Michener's storytelling and reportorial skills are brought to the fore in this stunning and heartbreaking examination of the events that led to the 1970 shootings at Kent State, which shook the country to the roots and had a profound impact on the anti-war movement.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Crest Books
Date Published: 1971-11
Description: Good. Complete, clean, fresh copy of this vintage book showing a lot of creasing to spine from reading, slight tanning to inside pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Crest Books
Date Published: 1971-11
Description: Good. Complete, clean, fresh copy of this vintage book showing a lot of creasing to spine from reading, slight tanning to inside pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York, NY
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. [S] Damp staining/damage to boards, spine, and endpapers. Damp damage, tears, creases, rubbing and chips to d.j. in poly cover. B/w photos. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Trade
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Good in poor dust jacket. Text is crisp, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Dust Jacket has quite a bit of fading and edgewear. 559 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Trade
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Pages are bright and unmarked except for first page dust jacket has wear. 559 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good condition, many b&w photos, binding cracked in beginning but everything tight and secure, some edgewear to cover. 1971 1st edition, hardcover. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett crest
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very Good. 16 pgs of photos inside. Tight spline with light wear and some aging. Free Delivery Confirmation is included with each item. Mailed inside a plastic sleeve for extra shipping protection. FREE delivery confirmation and mailed inside a plastic sleeve for extra shipping protection. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0394471997. A near fine copy with some rubbing to the spine, and one closed tear (1") to the front cover. A probing and dramatic study of the tragic events leading up to the killing of four students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in the spring of 1970. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0394471997 Seller is highly recommended with excellent service record and over 1000 positive prior buyer feedback comments. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Very Good, Hardback, No Dust Jacket, First Edition, 559 pages, black and white photos. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition, No Price On Jacket
Binding: Black Lettered Cloth
Publisher: Random House, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Very Good For Age in Better Than Good No Price jacket. 9 1/2 X 6 1/2. Jacket in a crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. Pages are tight, bright & clean. Binding firm and straight, sewn signatures & blue topstain. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment this is the one. Boards, spine, edges and corners good. Illustrated wirh map endpapers and B/W photos. 559 pages. read more
Edition: 1st Edition (Stated)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House/ Reader's Digest, New York
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: Very Good. No DJ. Blue paper over boards w/ black lettering on the front board & silver lettering on the spine, some soil on the text edges. Some wrinkling of the spine ends, many photos throughout the text. Text block appears to be clean & unmarked. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House / Reader's Digest Press 1971
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394471990ISBN:0394471997
Description: ISBN 0394471997. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book, with some browning to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs, small closed tears, and creases around its edges, some browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. $10.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. read more
"The afternoon of May 4,1970 I sat in Dr. Rice's history class at the Mansfield branch of Ohio State. He came into class and announced four students had been killed at Kent State. A fellow student, Micheal Goldstien stood up and said, "Who thought the revolution would start at Kent State." Kent State was only seventy miles from Mansfield. That weekend I traveled with four other students to Washington to protest the killing and Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. The reaction to the invasion started protests at Kent State a few days before the killings.
I knew of Michener's book when it first came out in the early 70's, but knowing Michener, I figured it would be a conservative white wash of the event. Instead, reading it all these years later, I found it balanced. In fact, I think Michener went to great lengths to be fair. He starts with the Kent State student's reaction to Nixon's announcement to invade Cambodia on Thursday night, and follows the events over the weekend into Monday. He also traces the movements that weekend of Jeff Miller, Allison Krause, Bill Schroeder and Sandy Scheuer, the four students who were killed, and as well as Doug Wrentmore, who was wounded but survived. He condemns both the actions of the students and the decisions of Ohio'S governor James Rhodes.
Michener's depiction of the counter culture back then is sometimes quaint and misinformed, but sympathetic. For me, it brought back many feelings of anger and frustration. What surprised me, that I had forgotten, the public reaction to the event. Many people thought all the students should have been shot. One mother whose daughter participated in the demonstrations, told her daughter, she should have been shot too.
It also interesting to read Michener's predictions of what the future of the nation and higher education. Almost none of it came to pass."
"This book starts off sounding like the Party line, but when Mitchener digs deeper he discovers that Kent was like so many "black flag" operations....."they shoot students don't they?""
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