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Kent State: An American Tragedy

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Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

A Kirkus Reviews and New Yorker Best Book of 2024

An ALA Notable Book


A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences.

On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and ro...