2024-10-28
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Shopify.co.uk RestiSHistory when great waves break, there is a moment when it seems as if everything in their way must destroyed.
Even those who have watched the water rising and guessed the force of the wind and the tides driving it are shocked by the vehemence of the impact.
But in that same moment, the destructive force of the wave is temporarily spent.
Whatever has been unable to withstand it is safe in the slack waters of the trough until the next wave breaks.
For nearly five years since the assassination of President Kennedy, two long waves of danger had been racing toward the safe and settled shore where most Americans live the danger of war from Southeast Asia and the danger of rebellion in the heart of American cities.
The first week of April 1968 was the week the waves broke.
So those were the opening lines of the suitably named An American Melodrama, a book about the presidential election of 1968 by three journalists working for the Sunday Times here in London.
Hence the very portentous British accent with which I did that reading.
Dominic yeah, you have put down in your notes 1968, the most tumultuous year in modern American history.
And you would know because this is absolutely your subject, isn't it?
This is the background to your doctorate.
You know everything about this.
And on that level it's very exciting.