A review by mossymanul
'68: The Mexican Autumn of the Tlatelolco Massacre, by Paco Ignacio Taibo

5.0

Taibo's sporadic, intimate writing does a spectacular job of bringing the reader into that summer and fall of the failed revolution. He writes as if he has little care that the reader should understand every piece of insider knowledge of that time, every anecdote and joke, but he gives enough that you feel like you understand this complex and confusing web that the young adults were launched into that year. The nostalgia of the era, along with the pain of it, becomes personal. On a grander scale, it's an incredibly valuable book to understanding that era of protest and failure, particularly the emotional side of it. 4.5 stars.