CONTENTS
Introduction
1. OMENS
Los Angeles: Manson is Innocent!
London: Jimi was Murdered!
St-Tropez: Mick gets Married
2. REMNANTS FROM THE REVOLUTION
London: Fashionable Anger
Chicago: Eight Men and a Culture on Trial
Barnard College: Let’s Live Together
Nyack: A Change in the Weather
3. OLD ARGUMENTS, NEW DEATHS
Bangladesh: ‘We can kill anyone for anything’
Belfast: Bloody Sunday
The Middle East: Yom Kippur
Vietnam: Peace with Honour?
South Africa: Biko
4. TERROR
Munich: Black Olympics
Berlin: Baader–Meinhof
California: Comrade Patty Hearst
Rome: Time to Pick Up a Gun
Guipúzcoa: ETA
5. HOW THE MIGHTY FALL
Santiago: Making Chile Scream
Washington: Watergate
Athens: Metapolitefsi
Vietnam: The Ho Chi Minh Offensive
Madrid: After Franco
Nicaragua: The Sandinista Revolution
6. ENTER STAGE RIGHT
Merrie England: Rivers of Blood
New York: Hardhats
Miami: Anita Bryant and the Moral Majority
In Bed: Coming for Christ
7. FADS, FASHIONS AND CULTS
Colombia: Cocaine
East London: Skinheads
Jonestown: Dying for Dad
On Stage: Punk
8. MORE THAN JUST A GAME
Beijing: Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Kinshasa: The Rumble in the Jungle
Houston: The Battle of the Sexes
Reykjavik: Fischer vs Spassky
Silicon Valley: Pong
9. WIZARDRY AND WOE
Detroit: ‘The Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling’
Oldham: Test Tube Babies
Cape Canaveral: Shuttle to Nowhere
Seveso: Who Knows?
Three Mile Island: Meltdown
10. TYRANTS
Uganda: Big Daddy Amin
Manila: Ferdinand and Imelda
Phnom Penh: Pol Pot
Rhodesia: From Smith to Mugabe
Tehran: Islamic Revolution
11. BEGINNINGS
Camp David: Accord?
Washington: Not Enough Bombs
Afghanistan: Trapping the Bear
Downing Street: Maggie Knows Best
Epilogue: ‘I can’t believe Ronald Reagan is president’
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index