A Hard Rain: America In The 1960s, Our Decade Of Hope, Possibility, And Innocence Lost

"Frye Gaillard offers a sweeping analysis of a “decade of hope and tragedy and blood,” detailing the forces of change at play in American society – in politics, social movements, science and the arts. What stands out are personal reflections on events that shaped Gaillard – such as Robert Kennedy’s response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination: “As I read over these words now … the historian’s detachment disappears into memory,” he writes. “I feel again the sense so many shared at the time that this was the heart of America laid bare – the hope on the other side of our national inclination to violence.”"