Mark Kurlansky

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
A lot happened in 1968: the Tet offensive; the My Lai massacre; RFK and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassinations, and the Democratic convention in Chicago, to name a few. Mark Kurlansky's new book is 1968: The Year That Rocked the World.
Read an excerpt of Kurlansky's book in the Reading Room.
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