Kent State

Kent State
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781683358619
ISBN-13 : 1683358619
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Kent State by : Derf Backderf

From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings†‹ On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children—a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, which will be published in time for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent—as relevant today as it was in 1970.

Four Dead in Ohio

Four Dead in Ohio
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0937813052
ISBN-13 : 9780937813058
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Four Dead in Ohio by : William A. Gordon

Tells the shocking story behind the cover-up of the May 4, 1970 slayings of four students at Kent State University.

Kent State

Kent State
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9781338356304
ISBN-13 : 1338356305
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Kent State by : Deborah Wiles

From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War. May 4, 1970. Kent State University. As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why. Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.

67 Shots

67 Shots
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Publisher : Da Capo Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780306823800
ISBN-13 : 0306823802
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis 67 Shots by : Howard Means

At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. At noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. The story doesn't end there, though. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the Commons. The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus; preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place. Using the university's recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era.

Trashed

Trashed
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781613128657
ISBN-13 : 1613128657
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Trashed by : Derf Backderf

Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears—like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs—garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking gig will relate to this tale. Trashed follows the raucous escapades of three 20-something friends as they clean the streets of pile after pile of stinking garbage, while battling annoying small-town bureaucrats, bizarre townfolk, sweltering summer heat, and frigid winter storms. Trashed is fiction, but is inspired by Derf’s own experiences as a garbage­man. Interspersed are nonfiction pages that detail what our garbage is and where it goes. The answers will stun you. Hop on the garbage truck named Betty and ride along with Derf on a journey into the vast, secret world of garbage. Trashed is a hilarious, stomach-churning tale that will leave you laughing and wincing in disbelief.

Kent State

Kent State
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Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1101922222
ISBN-13 : 9781101922224
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Kent State by : James A. Michener

All 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.

Kent State

Kent State
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 1625341105
ISBN-13 : 9781625341105
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Kent State by : Thomas M. Grace

Epilogue: A Battlefield of Memory -- Appendix: After the War-The Fates of Kent's Activist Generation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations -- Back Cover

The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest

The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112001845277
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest by : United States. President's Commission on Campus Unrest

Four Dead in Ohio

Four Dead in Ohio
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Publisher : Emerald Publishing Limited
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1800718101
ISBN-13 : 9781800718104
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Four Dead in Ohio by : Johanna Solomon

This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the shooting of student activists protesting against the US wars in SE Asia at Kent State University providing the needed space for the narratives of those who have fought, and continue to fight, for change.

When Truth Mattered

When Truth Mattered
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Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1950659399
ISBN-13 : 9781950659395
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis When Truth Mattered by : Robert Giles