"Telling It Like It Was: The Chicago Riots" (1969)

New York City: Signet / New American Library (book, anthology, history), 1969.
7" x 4.25" x 0.5", 159 pages, softcover.

Telling It Like It Was: The Chicago Riots, an anthology of statements on the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as edited by Walter Schneir and published as a Signet Book by New American Library (New York City) in February, 1969. 

William S. Burroughs' statement on the actions of the police, as presented at the Chicago Coliseum on 27 August 1968, is on page 106. 

This copy was acquired from Red Letter Secondhand Books (Boulder, Colorado, US).

Maynard & Miles B46.
Shoaf II.57.

Contents:

• Preface
• Abbie Hoffman: "Why We're Going to Chicago"
• Paul Krassner: "The Yippies Are a Community of Voluntary Niggers"
• Carl Oglesby: "An Open Letter to McCarthy Supporters"
• William Styron: "In the Jungle"
• Arthur Miller: "From the Delegates' Side"
• Tom Wicker: "The Question at Chicago"
• Jimmy Breslin: "Police Riot"
• Elizabeth Hardwick: "Chicago"
• Michael J. Arlen: "A Wednesday Evening in Chicago"
• John Berendt: "Hog-Wild in the Streets"
• William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet, Terry Southern, and Allen Ginsberg: "Public Statements"
• Jack Newfield: "The Streets of Daleyland"
• Richard Goldstein: "Theatre of Fear: One on the Aisle"
• Tom Hayden: "Post-Chicago Interview"
• Walter Schneir: "Terror on Display"
• Don Miller: "Leaders Aren't Needed on Michigan Avenue"
• Dave Dellinger: "Lessons from Chicago for the Movement"