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ABOUT Carol Brightman

Carol Brightman is the author of several books, including “Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World,” “Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure” and, most recently, “Total Insecurity: The Myth of American Omnipotence.” She is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature and an NBCC award in biography and lives in Walpole, Maine.
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ABOUT Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970, and refusing to serve in the military, Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright, having a number of off-off Broadway productions, and as a playwright-in-residence at Brooklyn College. He won the 1972 Earplay award for best radio play of the year.
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ABOUT Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar.
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ABOUT Mark Rudd

Mark William Rudd is a political organizer, mathematics instructor, and anti-war activist, most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground. Rudd became a member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1963. By 1968, he had emerged as a leader for Columbia's SDS chapter. During the 1968 Columbia Student Revolt, he served as spokesperson for dissident students protesting a variety of issues, most notably the Vietnam War.
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. -John Lennon

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 7, 2004.

A world-changing year of international social upheaval is examined by a panel of historians and actual participants in the events. Mark Kurlansky, author of 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, recounts the year’s major events and movements. Invited for discussion are Mark Rudd, former U.S. student revolutionary (now mathematics teacher); Edward Mortimer, British journalist who covered the events in France (now Special Adviser to the U.N. Secretary-General); Carol Brightman, American journalist and anti-war activist (then and now, plus an award-winning biographer).