These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history rich in incident - the Bay of Pigs the Cuban Missile Crisis the civil rights struggle the antiwar crusade the opening of China Watergate Kennedy's assassination Johnson's retirement the fall of Nixon: rich in personality - Robert Kennedy Stokely Carmichael Martin Luther King Jr Earl Warren Bob Dylan Henry Kissinger George Wallace Hubert Humphrey: and rich finally in what it tells us of power its attainment and its use at home and abroad.