Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

Avividaccount of the largest act of civil disobedience in UShistory, in Richard Nixon's Washington

They surged into Washington by the tens ofthousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-longmovement to end America's war in Vietnam:a blockade of the nation's capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoidRichard Nixon, was determined to stop it.

Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts,drawin...