A more valuable factual record of events than the city's white paper, the Walker Report [Rights in Conflict] and Theodore B. White's Making of a President combined. -- Christopher Chandler, Book Week
An original and passionate contribution to the study of the continuing American crisis. -- Jason Epstein
John Schultz, in No One Was Killed, has managed marvelously to evoke what happened in Chicago and what it felt like to have it happen to you. He refuses to sluff off any of those ambiguous perceptions that amount to honesty...superior... We know where he was because Mr. Schultz has multiple vision and stylistic intensity commensurate with his feelings, opinions, and perceptions.... He demonstrates rather than insists on his engagement, and tracks each motive down the neural pathway to its origin, in the state and in himself... Because his account is so convincing, he is the one worth arguing with. -- John Leonard, The New York Times
Of all the book-length accounts I read of 1960's political and cultural confrontations, none (not even Mailer's Armies of the Night) is more lucid in its understanding of the torments and tropisms of the movements of the streets ... This is vivid writing that can stand as pure, suspenseful reportage... -- Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties
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What did happen in Chicago during August 1968 when the Democratic Party staged its Convention to nominate a candidate for President and a series of confrontations-vital, often raw, at times complex -erupted between demonstrating citizens and police and Guardsmen, the Democrats among themselves, and the black community, and the turbulent Convention melee? Novelist John Schultz, covering the Convention as reporter for Evergreen Review, observed almost every confrontation in the parks, streets, at the Hilton Hotel and the International Amphitheater for ten days and nights. No One Was Killed is his clear, impassioned history of what he saw and felt.
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