Lawrence Roberts
LAWRENCE ROBERTS has been an investigative editor with ProPublica, the Washington Post, Bloomberg News, and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. He was a leader on teams honored with three Pulitzer Prizes. Mayday 1971 is his first book.
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Mayday 1971
- By: Lawrence Roberts
- Narrator: Kiff Vandenheuvel
- Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington
They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant... Read more
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