The Spirit of '68 : Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976
x, 254pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bottom text block edge sun faded. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, sun fading to front and spine heel. 8vo. Examines an era that opened up the possibility that economic and political elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain could be toppled from their position of unnatural superiority to make way for a new society where everyday people could, for the first time, become masters of their own destiny.