From Publishers Weekly
Wright ( City Children ; Country Summer ) reflects on his coming-of-age during the '60s, describing his experiences on the home front of the Vietnam war and on the battlefields of the civil rights movement. "This is a rewarding memoir with telling details on public figures and dissidents alike," commented PW .
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Like Bob Greene's Be True to Your School (LJ 4/15/87), this memoir deals with the thoughts and feelings of a young man coming of age in the early 1960s. However, the scope of this is much broader: Wright relates his "growing up" to his whole generation and the dream they dreamed. Wright lived in Dallas at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his story progresses up to the attempted assassination of President Reagan. Wright traces his shift from a conservative, church-going young man to conscientious objector who bought into the dream of a better world made so by those then under 30. Now at middle age, if the "dream" is still alive, it's not the same innocent vision. An important book. Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Cty. Lib., Seaside, Cal.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
