Reviews for An American melodrama

The average rating for An American melodrama based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-09-07 00:00:00 Gene Fogerty 1968 was the most intense year of my life as it involved the events of the assassinations of M.L. King and R.F. Kennedy, the campaign of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, the Chicago police riot during the Democratic Convention, the Parisian students' revolt, the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Tet offensive in Vietnam etc. I was personally most involved in the McCarthy campaign and the police riot (ouch!) in my hometown--and I was only a high school sophomore! It was also the year I made my first big trip alone--to Oahu, and the McCarthy campaign there, for most of the summer before the Chicago convention. Any book about the year and the period, particularly one written from a foreign--in this case British--perspective is of interest. I've read several and this was one of the better ones.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-30 00:00:00 Noel Teacher I have been dipping in and out of this for most of the year and finally decided to skim the remaining eighth of the book I had left. Such a pivotal time in history, the major fallout of dislike for the Vietnam war, the violent and difficult democratic convention of '68 and the rise of Nixon all make for a fascinating - if sometimes overly detailed read. Certainly proves the point that not much changes in the political world - the factionalism, lying, cheating all existed and continue to do so. As part of my quest to read books from the year of my berth, this was a great read which I hope I will do more justice to on repeated visits.