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Coming Apart by Roger Rosenblatt is a memoir focusing on the contentious events at Harvard University in the spring of 1969, where 135 students, associated with Students for a Democratic Society, seized the main administrative office in protest of Harvard's alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, resulting in a police crackdown and subsequent student strike, administrative turmoil, and public debates on disciplinary actions. The book addresses themes of violent protests and police confrontations.