{"product_id":"mayday-1971-a-white-house-at-war-a-revolt-in-the-streets-and-the-untold-history-of-americas-biggest-mass-arrest-isbn-9780358561972","title":"Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored archives, and newfound White House transcripts, recreates these largely forgotten events through the eyes of dueling characters. Woven into the story too are now-familiar names including John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. It began with a bombing inside the US Capitol—a still-unsolved case to which Roberts brings new information. To prevent the Mayday Tribe’s guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the military. Riot squads swept through the city, arresting more than 12,000 people. As a young female public defender led a thrilling legal battle to free the detainees, Nixon and his men took their first steps down the road to the Watergate scandal and the implosion of the presidency.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Mayday 1971 is the ultimately inspiring story of a season when our democracy faced grave danger, and survived. | \u003cp\u003e“Award-winning investigative reporter Lawrence Roberts tells the story superbly from start to finish . . . With a talent for research and an eye for colorful detail, Mr. Roberts presents a lot of new and overlooked material . . . Mayday has been paid less attention than other protests of the period, and its significance overlooked. Mr. Roberts’s first-rate book redresses that imbalance.”   —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “A deeply researched narrative of Nixon’s mass arrest of the thousands of protesters who flooded the capital in the darkest days of the Vietnam War.”   —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A coherent, fast moving, and fascinating story.\"   —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Fascinating… It’s impossible to read \u003cem\u003eMayday 1971\u003c\/em\u003e without thinking of our own recent summer of unrest — and the autumn of discontent we face.”  —John Kelly, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “A great read on this remarkable event.”  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Vivid and deeply sourced . . . Roberts convincingly argues that the White House’s authoritarian attitudes and actions foreshadowed the Watergate scandal.\"   —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     \"Roberts conveys the personal and political impact of a pivotal event in American history in a narrative that will engage readers of the time period and resonate with today’s social justice activists.\"   —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Kiff VandenHeuvel narrates this intense reexamination of Mayday 1971’s mass protests in Washington, DC, as if he were reporting on a current event. His voice sounds charged, his pace is quick, and the result creates a dramatic audiobook. This is as it should be for a retelling of the highest number of mass arrests (12,000) in our nation’s history.”  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Perceptive, thoroughly researched . . . Roberts creates a tense, brisk narrative . . . [and] offers sharply drawn portraits of key White House personnel and of many protestors . . .  A vivid history of passionate protest.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Kirkus Reviews   “\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA brilliant investigation of the tense days when war, democracy and law collided on the streets of Washington, Mayday 1971 brings it all back in vivid detail and riveting story-telling. Here is a real-life thriller that shows the strength of our society and our system, important lessons for today’s turmoil.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003eDavid E. Hoffman\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Billion Dollar Spy\u003c\/em\u003e   Roberts \"relates the shameful story of what happened that year like a mystery writer.... He pinpoints the origins of this extraordinary drama.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Washington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   One of 2020's \"most anticipated debut books.\" \u003cem\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   “A riveting history crafted from first hand-testimonies of a pivotal time in our democracy. Roberts has unearthed compelling new dimensions of this important story.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003eLynn Novick\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003edirector with Ken Burns of \u003cem\u003eThe Vietnam War\u003c\/em\u003e     “This unraveling of the Mayday saga is not just history at its most illuminating, and top-drawer storytelling, but a narrative that resonates today, when our democracy is again being challenged.”  —\u003cstrong\u003eLarry Tye\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDemagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy\u003c\/em\u003e   \"Illuminating, ambitious and rigorously researched, Mayday 1971  recovers the remarkable story of the largest number of mass arrests in U.S. history. Every chapter resounds with scenes that could be pulled from today's headlines. Lawrence Roberts calls his history ‘largely forgotten.' It will certainly be new and revelatory for anyone, young or old, who wants to truly understand the depths of the divide that fractured the country during the Vietnam War.\" \u003cem\u003e —\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteve Luxenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eSeparate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation\u003c\/em\u003e   “At a time when American democracy is under threat from an unscrupulous president, this fine account of an earlier such time is highly relevant. As a participant in the movement against the Vietnam War, I was moved by the way Lawrence Roberts so eloquently brings to life a crucial episode in that struggle. And to be reminded that, in the long run, we won.”  —\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Hochschild\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRebel Cinderella \u003c\/em\u003e   \"Well-written, deeply researched . . . [Roberts] does a sterling job.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe VVA Veteran\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"The events culminating with the mass arrests of 12,000 people in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1971 have been curiously underreported in most histories of the Vietnam era. Roberts changes that with this compelling history of Mayday 1971. \" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e —Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889945309413,"sku":"NP9780358561972","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780358561972.jpg?v=1730232238","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mayday-1971-a-white-house-at-war-a-revolt-in-the-streets-and-the-untold-history-of-americas-biggest-mass-arrest-isbn-9780358561972","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}