RaveThe Wall Street Journal...[an] excellent oral history of the tumultuous events of 1969 and 1970 ... Ms. Bingham does a fine job conjuring the sense of a looming apocalypse, at least as felt by those in Washington, New York and the Bay Area who manned the front lines of change. It’s surprising to be reminded how many of the decade’s signature events occurred in a single year ... Witness to the Revolution offers an impressive list of actual witnesses to these events and more, including some sharp contextual asides explaining the rise of the antiwar movement and the fallout from its messy end ... Ms. Bingham’s book is of necessity episodic, and if it doesn’t quite add up to a cohesive narrative, that’s mostly due to the constraints of oral history. And if much of what’s here has been related elsewhere, it does little to dampen the excitement and 'you-are-there' immediacy of the book’s strongest passages.
