| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention. By Frank Kusch. (Westport: Praeger, 2004. xvi, 206 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-275-98138-X.)

Frank Kusch has written a useful, if problematic, book about the clashes between demonstrators and the Chicago police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Kusch interviewed numerous retired white Chicago police officers for the project and the book is largely told from their perspective. His goal, he writes, is "to move beyond stereotypical images of Irish, Italian, and Polish cops, 'storm troopers' with cigar butts between their teeth" (p. x). Instead, he "strives to see these officers as they saw themselves—men with families, mortgages, and lives—from the perspective of that turbulent time" (p. x). While I am not sure whose "stereotypical images" he means to correct (full disclosure, I authored a book about the 1968 convention in Chicago), Kusch's book does provide valuable insight into the social milieu and cultural precepts of some of the Chicago police officers who believed they were safeguarding their city during that tumultuous week in August 1968.

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