{"product_id":"california-1963-1967-spaceship-earth-a-memoir-paperback","title":"California 1963-1967 Spaceship Earth: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Mark Glazner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Mark Glazner's upbeat memoir, \u003cem\u003eCalifornia 1963-1967 Spaceship Earth, \u003c\/em\u003erecreates the wild and crazy early years of the counterculture through the eyes of a college student, promising young writer, and conflicted war resister living on the edge of Hollywood and the music industry while trying to make sense of the sexually charged, anything goes California of the 1960s. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In his words: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Everything was changing, and nothing could stop it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Optimism and rage lived side-by-side with sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and music that changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Friendships promising to last forever competed for our attention with soaring racial unrest and a war tearing America apart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Living in California between the last weeks of President Kennedy's White House (1963) and the Summer of Love (1967) was like looking out the window of a spaceship and catching a glimpse of the future. That spaceship was planet earth. We were traveling together, destination unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The rules were changing. We felt it. We tried to define it and redefine ourselves to make more sense of the best and worst parts of the journey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e We were desperate and curious enough to try anything. No matter what we did, nothing would ever be the same again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Glazner draws on hundreds of letters from the 1960s, dozens of interviews, headline news, and personal memories to bring to life the terror of the Watts Riots, the promise of the world's first Love-In, his own family's struggles back East, and famous and not-so-famous people who influenced his writing and the one irrevocable, life-changing decision he had to make about the Vietnam War and his own future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For those who missed the 1960s or were there but don't remember them, meet some of the foot soldiers of the counterculture as well as some of the innovators and young black sheep of the music industry and Hollywood through Glazner's eyes, including Allen Ginsberg, Edie Sedgwick, Beatles' insider Derek Taylor, underground publisher Paul Krassner, artist Paul Thek, and many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eCalifornia 1963-1967 Spaceship Earth \u003c\/em\u003eis an antiwar story with a happy ending and the prequel to Glazner's first memoir \u003cem\u003eLife After America. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 390\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47545141494013,"sku":"9781775005872","price":30.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Wk84cVI1cTI4ZGw0eit6TWtZOUl2Zz09.webp?v=1779015137","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/california-1963-1967-spaceship-earth-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}