Summer City Death Rides along on a Swinging Road Trip Back to the Sixties |
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| Author:
| Mitchell, Ben |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5078-5418-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $8.23 |
Book Description:
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THE SIXTIES are special for a lot of reasons but the most potent of them - the ones that send the world into a new orbit - happen between the coronation of King Elvis and the knighting of the Beatles. The young are given their heads and old laws disappear. And people change, learn new ways and where to draw lines, and where not to draw them. They have fun and they have pain, as it is when you let go everything that's familiar.Yet if history is in need of a symbol for the Sixties it is...
More DescriptionTHE SIXTIES are special for a lot of reasons but the most potent of them - the ones that send the world into a new orbit - happen between the coronation of King Elvis and the knighting of the Beatles. The young are given their heads and old laws disappear. And people change, learn new ways and where to draw lines, and where not to draw them. They have fun and they have pain, as it is when you let go everything that's familiar.Yet if history is in need of a symbol for the Sixties it is the gun. It tears down the Kennedys, Oswald and King. It kills in Cuba and the Middle East. It stains the lush valleys of Vietnam red and rampages through Africa and Ireland. One summer the gun makes a pilgrimage down the coast from Austinville. And Sandy Harris will never forget it.