PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewMany of Bingham’s interviewees are well known: Daniel Ellsberg, Jane Fonda, Carl Bernstein, Oliver Stone...But some of the people here are not so familiar, and their interviews are among the most valuable...The familiar voices and the unfamiliar ones are woven together with some documents to make this a surprisingly powerful and moving book ... The Vietnam War itself gets less attention here than the Weather Underground ... The only real flaw in the book is in the title, which refers to 1969-70 as a year of 'revolution.' Bingham attributes that idea to the Nixon aide Stephen Bull, who told her, 'You have no idea how close we were, as a country, to revolution.' I don’t know any historians who would agree with that; Michael Kazin, who is interviewed here, certainly doesn’t. 'The war was incredibly unpopular,' he says, 'but the antiwar movement was also unpopular.' As for Bingham herself, she was not a 'witness to the revolution' — she was 6 years old in 1969, and writes that she always felt as if she had 'missed the party.'
