马克·科兰斯基，《宗派评论》(Partisan Reviews)专栏作家，并经常为《国际先驱导报》、《芝加哥论坛报》及《纽约时报杂志》撰写文章。主要作品有《巴斯克人的世界史》(The Basque History of the World：The Story of a Nation)；《被选择的少数：欧洲犹太人的复兴》(A Chosen Few：The Resurrection of European Jewry)、《非暴力主义：一种危险观念的历史》(Nonviolence：The History of a DanKerous Idea)等。此外，他的专著《鳕鱼》(Cod：A BioKraphy of the Fish that Changed the World)获得詹姆斯·比尔德食品写作优秀奖。

It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Chicago Convention, The Tet Offensive, the French student rebellion, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the birth of the Women's movement and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In 1968, Mark Kurlansky has recorded the cultural and political history of a world changing year in which television's influence on global events first became apparent and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously all around the world. The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. This book shows us how one restless, volatile year has helped shape us into who we are today.