Chicago 1968 represents, as perhaps no other moment in American history, the flashpoint of cultural resistance to a militarised world out of control. In the summer of 1968, still reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, thousands of young people descended on the National Democratic Convention to oppose the Vietnam War and demand a Peace platform, and the showdown between the longhairs and the police became one of the most violent confrontations ever broadcast on nightly news; the whole world was watching, as CBS reporter Dan Rather put it. Witnessing it all were some of the most attuned minds of the day, including Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Studs Terkel and the team Esquire had assembled of Terry Southern, William Burroughs and Jean Genet. The photographer Michael Cooper, after meeting Southern at the bar of the Chateau Marmont, decided to tag along and gained accreditation. Editors Nile Southern and Adam Cooper, who had long dreamt of a collaboration between their fathers' work, present a kaleidoscopic, on-the-ground account told primarily through Southern's words and Cooper's photographs: a protester carrying a PEACE sign before a line of police on the cover, writers walking together and demonstrators holding signs.