Frank Gormlie, editor here at OB Rag, is having a book-signing event with his new book, The May 1970 Rebellion, at La Playa Books in Point Loma on Saturday, November 23rd.
The book-signing will be from 2 to 4 pm at La Playa, located at 1026 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92106-3019 — their phone is (619) 226-2601. As it’s a weekend, parking should be relatively easy.
The book covers the May 1970 student upheaval caused by President Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent repression. Currently, it’s in an ebook mode — and the paperback version Print on Demand (POD) is also available at Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. (The paperback is in two volumes.)
Here’s the Amazon description:
This book explores – in narrative form — the record of the May 1970 explosion of student protests and the National Student Strike, the greatest student strike in American history –all in response to both President Richard Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent government repression. The rebellion brought the nation’s higher education system to a halt and created an unprecedented crisis for the Establishment.
Millions of college and university students joined protests, 1400 colleges and universities were affected, 650 campuses were shut down, 8 deaths were attributed to the rebellion, 1300 injured or wounded, 4,500 arrests in the nearly one hundred clashes between students and law enforcement, and the National Guard was deployed 2 dozen times in 16 states. Drawn from original sources and archives of student newspapers and strike newsletters, the book unearths the burial for over 50 years of one of the greatest unreported stories of the century.
The murders/ killings of 4 students at Kent State University were just the tip of the iceberg, as The May 1970 Rebellion shows. Much more came down and this book gives light to the voices and acts of America’s college students. And it forever changes the way the history of the sixties and seventies will be viewed. The story of May 1970 can now be more fully appreciated and understood as the record of the true high-water mark of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Congrats! Will do my very best to be there and spread the word about this book signing.
Best,
Paul Krueger
Don’t forget those of us that refuse to to enrich Bezos at Amazon, Frank. Let us know where else they will available please!
And I want the 2-book series signed, too, when they come out! After all, didn’t I send you a signed copy of mine four years ago? HA!
Snow is coming here tonight. And my snow tires just showed up in Spokane but the old tires on my truck I will NOT drive on in snow to go get them switched. I hope the rain expected next week will make it possible to get my old 4runner down there for that. Will feel much safer then…
sealintheSelkirks
Barnes & Noble, and a host of smaller, lesser-known outfits.
I’m there.
“Stories are like seeds. They live in the very air we breathe. They are around us at all times. When you ask a question, it is like one of the seeds has been watered and a flower grows, one of the everlasting spirits, and it talks to me. The seed doesn’t sprout and grow without your question.” (Indigenous wisdom as told by author, Greg Sarris).
Frank’s new book tells a story that has haunted our ‘Boomer’ Generation for over 50 years. Trump wants to use the military against American citizens and someone asks “Has this ever happened before?”
And, Frank has masterfully captured that story for us to reflect upon.
Thanks Stuart, that’s an excellent tie-in with today’s situation.
Good for you Frank! Very cool!
Can’t make the book signing, so I will get it signed by you when we meet up again.
Likely will buy 4 copies, to give it to my daughters.
That’s great Steve, thank you.
It’s fake news frank, it never happened!
Congratulations to you Frank!
My book (both volumes) can also be found at the OB Library.