Foreword by Todd Gitlin
Introduction to Confrontation
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I Am Here in Lincoln Park/ Wednesday Midnight Confrontation Attitudes
The Week Before the Convention: Preparatory Confrontations
Julian Bond Meets the Governor of New Jersey
Cops and Media Watch Over the Festival of Life
Platform Committee, Hale Boggs Presiding, Faces the Nation
Sunday: Overthrow
Chicago: The Prague of the West
McCarthy Arrives and Innocence Waits on the Hilton Stairs
Music in Lincoln Park/Invocation
Sunday Night/Overthrow
Monday: The Beast and the Hunt
Grant Park: Boys Capture Union General
Lincoln Park: The Barricade
Grant Park: Awakening in Front of the Hilton
The Ritual and the Hunt
Tuesday: The Demands of Revolution
McCarthy Meets California
Lincoln Park Citizens Meet Their Police Commander
World War II Vets Meet War Resisters
LBJ Birthday Party and Anti-Birthday Party
Attack at the Foot of the Cross
Demonstrators Meet Guardsmen Brothers
Wednesday: War
Vietnam War Plank
The Battle at the Bandshell
The Battle at Michigan and Balbo
Battles in the Loop and Lincoln Park
The Nation Faces the Demonstrators
Thursday: Exile
Morning
McCarthy Speaks and Speaks Again
To the Amphitheatre
War Games
Friday
McCarthy Headquarters Attacked
In the Months Afterward
When the Game Changes
Postscript
Afterword, 2008
Acknowledgments