The Management of Dissent

In May 1970, four students were gunned down by police at Kent State University in Ohio during a demonstration protesting the US invasion of Cambodia; demonstrations protesting those killings erupted on campuses throughout the country. Clardy (history and political science, Triton College, River Grove, Illinois) examines violent protests at seven Illinois public universities and the state government's reaction to them. He places the events in the political and educational context of Cold War America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR