“Award-winning investigative reporter Lawrence Roberts tells the story superbly from start to finish . . . With a talent for research and an eye for colorful detail, Mr. Roberts presents a lot of new and overlooked material . . . Mayday has been paid less attention than other protests of the period, and its significance overlooked. Mr. Roberts’s first-rate book redresses that imbalance.”
–Wall Street Journal
“A brilliant investigation of the tense days when war, democracy and law collided on the streets of Washington, Mayday 1971 brings it all back in vivid detail and riveting story-telling. Here is a real-life thriller that shows the strength of our society and our system, important lessons for today’s turmoil.”
—David E. Hoffman, author of The Billion Dollar Spy
A bomb blast inside the U.S. Capitol. Embittered soldiers hurling back their combat medals. A mass march engulfing Washington. Twelve thousand people swept up in America’s biggest dragnet. This is the story behind the extraordinary final clash between the Vietnam antiwar movement and President Richard Nixon.
“Award-winning investigative reporter Lawrence Roberts tells the story superbly from start to finish . . . With a talent for research and an eye for colorful detail, Mr. Roberts presents a lot of new and overlooked material . . . Mayday has been paid less attention than other protests of the period, and its significance overlooked. Mr. Roberts’s first-rate book redresses that imbalance.”
–Wall Street Journal
“A brilliant investigation of the tense days when war, democracy and law collided on the streets of Washington, Mayday 1971 brings it all back in vivid detail and riveting story-telling. Here is a real-life thriller that shows the strength of our society and our system, important lessons for today’s turmoil.”
—David E. Hoffman, author of The Billion Dollar Spy
“The Common Ground of the Vietnam antiwar movement.”
–Laurel Leff, author of Well Worth Saving