Souvenirs Of A Blown World: Sketches From the Sixties: Writings About America, 1966-1973

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Presents first-hand accounts of major events during the 60s and interviews with Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Krishnamurtie, Phil Ochs and Andy Warhol among others. Includes recollections of a war-battered young soldier through the steamy quagmire of Vietnam, the opening bash of John Wayne's first film, seeing Jack Kerouac booze himself into hallucinatory eloquence and the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Captured in kaleidoscopic prose, this is the vanished world of America's revolt and its second adolescence.

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[Gregory Mcdonald] is one of the best writers we haveto the point and always original.New York Times Book Review


Mcdonald is one of the cleverest writers around. United Press International

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Twice the winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award and described by critics as the inventor of the sunlight mystery and "the Master of the Pointed Story," GREGORY MCDONALD has published twenty-six books, including the Fletch books. From 1966 to 1973 he worked for the Boston Globe, where he was the first member of the major media to write against the Vietnam War.