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Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg is the editorial director of The Nation Institute and an editor and writer at The New Yorker

April 2018

  • Protestor Eyes Riot Police Outside 1968 Democratic National Convention<br>A young female protester wearing a helmet faces down helmeted and armed police officers at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 1968. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    1968: the year that changed America

    The cliche says that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there. But Hendrik Hertzberg remembers the decade’s most explosive year very well indeed