13 Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State (First Edition, First Printing)

Eszterhas, Joe; Roberts, Michael D.

ISBN 10: 0396062725 / ISBN 13: 9780396062721

Edité par Dodd, Mead and Company, 1970

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Uncommon First Edition, First Printing of this excellent account of the events surrounding the shooting of students by National Guard troops amid anti Vietnam War protests at Kent State University in May 1970. The co-authors were Cleveland Plain Dealer reporters who covered the episode. The younger of the pair, Joe Estzerhas, would go on to a colorful and extremely successful. if less edifying. career as a Hollywood screen writer, masterminding controversial blockbuster films "Basic Instinct" and "Showgirls." Cloth, 308 pages, illustrated. Minimal sign of previous use. N° de réf. du vendeur 014946

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Titre : 13 Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State (...

Éditeur : Dodd, Mead and Company

Date d'édition : 1970

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine

Edition : 1st Edition

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Book by Eszterhas Joe

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The dramatic original account of events that shook the nation. At noon on May 4, 1970, a thirteen-second burst of gunfire transformed the campus of Kent State University into a national nightmare. National Guard bullets killed four students and wounded nine. By nightfall the campus was evacuated and the school was closed. A generation of college students said they had lost all hope for the System and the future. How did it happen that young Americans in battle helmets, gas masks, and combat boots confronted other young Americans wearing bell-bottom trousers, flowered shirts, and shoulder-length hair? What were the issues and why did the confrontation escalate so terribly? Would there be future confrontations like the one of May 4? To answer these questions, prize-winning reporters Eszterhas and Roberts, who were on campus on May 4, spent weeks interviewing all the participants in the tragedy. They traveled to victims' homes and talked to relatives and friends; they spoke to National Guardsmen on the firing line and to students who were fired on. By putting together hundreds of first-person accounts they were able to establish for the first time what actually took place on the day of the shooting.