1969: Are You Still Listening?: Stories & Essays - Softcover

Green, Brent; Orsborn, Carol; Diamond, Jed; Adler, Richard; Cogswell, David; Case, Robert William; Dobbs, Greg; Moses, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578488450 ISBN 13: 9780578488455

Publisher: Brent Green & Associates, Inc., 2019

Synopsis

WINNER - 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards - Social/Political Change  1969 stood as the final year of a tumultuous decade, shattering domestic tranquility with epic events and cultural upheaval. On the fiftieth anniversary of 1969, eight authors share their coming-of-age experiences, vivid memories, and lessons learned from that raucous, electrifying year.What makes 1969 compelling? The authors invite you to join them and "take the trip back."
In January, The Beatles gave their final public performance on the rooftop of Apple Corps in London.
In July, NASA's Apollo 11 space mission launched Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong beyond earth's gravitational grip to a successful moon landing, fulfilling President John Kennedy's inaugural pledge "to go to the moon in this decade."
In August, Woodstock attracted over 400,000 rock 'n' roll fans, hippies, peaceniks, and sixties' music icons to a three-day countercultural gathering.
The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, in October, was the largest peaceful protest of a war in American history, flooding the nation's capital and including more than 2,000,000 antiwar protesters nationwide.
As the decade closed, the war raged on. Just months into the following year, the Kent State shootings shook the nation, bringing violent suppression of free expression to a U.S. college campus.
Joining lead author Brent Green in this alliance are veteran writers Carol Orsborn, PhD., David Cogswell, Robert William Case, Bob Moses, Jed Diamond, PhD., Greg Dobbs, and Richard Adler.
1969: Are You Still Listening? delivers their eyewitness accounts, personal tales, uncommon confessions, and fact-based fictional stories. The book merges documentary-style reporting with creative exploration, capturing the perspectives of journalists, fiction and nonfiction writers, and social and political commentators.
One question resonates throughout the book: Are you still listening? The book inspires contemplation about our social and political progress fifty years later. Do we see greater national unity today? Do we hear lingering discord? Do we sense progress toward equal treatment and opportunity for all?
For those who experienced 1969 firsthand, this book will stir memories and invite reflection about a momentous year. For those who were born later and are curious about the myths and realities of 1969, the book reveals truths concerning a rebellious time and an engaged generation that proclaimed a new vision for America.

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From the Back Cover:

Take the trip back ...

"Practically everything coming out of the blossoming youth culture was exciting and novel. But in the background, a killing machine was roaring." 
-- David Cogswell, A Report from the Scene
 
"While our world has gotten better since 1969, it's only better by some measures. We sometimes are less civil than we were, we sometimes use technology to do harm instead of good, and sometimes we are blind to those who corrupt our politics."
 --Greg Dobbs, Of Miniskirts, Misdeeds and Moon Missions
  
"We viewed the Vietnam War not simply as a peril to our survival, but as an existential, cruel, and merciless threat to a country with an ancient civilization that had suffered under foreign domination for centuries past. The United States of America, our government, was prepared to bomb them back to the stone age."
--Bob Moses, Hell No!
  
"I have come to appreciate that my greatest contributions have come about on a far more modest scale, one apology, one act of kindness, one adept communication,one act of forgiveness at a time." 
--Carol Orsborn, The Sun Is Still Shining 
 
"When the history of the 20th century is written--perhaps as a single chapter in a much longer story, perhaps in a book (or some yet unimaginable medium) written on a distant planet--one event that will be included is the moon landing of July 1969." 
--Richard Adler, The Peak of American Civilization 
 
"The first fatality of that day was Allison Krause, the young woman with the flower,killed by a bullet entering her left side from 330 feet away."
 --Robert William Case, Guns, Wings, & Rites of Passage 
 
"As I looked into his beautiful face, and our eyes met, I made a promise to him that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me."
 --Jed Diamond, The Promise
  
"The results for the draft lottery in 1969 won me an unenviable position in line for the obligatory physical examination and possible induction: number 71. My ass was on the line."
--Brent Green, Cat's in the Cradle

About the Author:

Brent Green is an award-winning author and marketer. He has been a social and business activist since college. His business books, Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers and Generation Reinvention, examine the sociology and psychology of the Boomer generation.
Dr. Carol Orsborn is founder/editor of Fierce with Age, the Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration and Spirituality. She has written 30 books for and about the Boomer generation, including The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker's Guide to Growing Older (with Robert L. Weber, PhD).

Richard Adler is a Distinguished Fellow at Institute for the Future (IFTF), Palo Alto, CA. He is also principal of People & Technology, a research and consulting firm based in Silicon Valley.

Bob Moses published the first local "senior" newspaper in the U.S. in 1974. Over his long career of advocacy for older people, he received numerous local and national awards and recognition.

Robert William Case once lived the life of an introverted lawyer in Littleton, Colorado, with a taste for early morning journaling. His novel, Icarus and the Wing Builder, was published in 2014, an alternative history inspired by the archetypal father and son of Greek myth.

David Cogswell has published thousands of articles in publications that include the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of four books in the For Beginners series, on Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Existentialism and Unions.

Greg Dobbs was a longtime network news correspondent who has been honored with three Emmy Awards and the "Distinguished Service Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists. Greg also hosted an award-winning program for Rocky Mountain PBS.

Dr. Jed Diamond is the founder/director of MenAlive and is a leader in the field of gender medicine and men's health. He is the author of fifteen books including international best-sellers Male Menopause and Surviving Male Menopause.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brent Green & Associates, Inc.
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0578488450
• ISBN 13: 9780578488455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205