Riot squads swept through the city, arresting more than 12,000 people. To prevent the Mayday Tribe's guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the military. Capitol-a still-unsolved case to which Roberts brings new information. Woven into the story too are now-familiar names including John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored archives, and newfound White House transcripts, recreates these largely forgotten events through the eyes of dueling characters. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America's war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation's capital. They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington
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