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What Really Happened To the Class of '65
A compilation of interviews with 30 members of the 1965 graduating class of Palisades High School.
370 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1976
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Michael Medved
44 books85 followersAmerican radio show host, author, political commentator, and film critic.
MICHAEL MEDVED’s daily three-hour radio program, The Michael Medved Show, reaches five million listeners on more than three hundred stations coast to coast.
He is the author of twelve other books, including the bestsellers The 10 Big Lies About America, Hollywood vs. America, Hospital, and What Really Happened to the Class of ’65?
He is a member of USA Today’s board of contributors, is a former chief film critic for the New York Post, and, for more than a decade, cohosted Sneak Previews, the weekly movie-review show on PBS. Medved is an honors graduate of Yale with departmental honors in American history. He lives with his family in the Seattle area.
MICHAEL MEDVED’s daily three-hour radio program, The Michael Medved Show, reaches five million listeners on more than three hundred stations coast to coast.
He is the author of twelve other books, including the bestsellers The 10 Big Lies About America, Hollywood vs. America, Hospital, and What Really Happened to the Class of ’65?
He is a member of USA Today’s board of contributors, is a former chief film critic for the New York Post, and, for more than a decade, cohosted Sneak Previews, the weekly movie-review show on PBS. Medved is an honors graduate of Yale with departmental honors in American history. He lives with his family in the Seattle area.
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November 17, 2019
Published in 1976, this story follows a group of friends who went to college instead of war in Indochina (a few did go later) after graduation. Many came from wealth with parents who worked in Hollywood or high end careers. While many in this class were to busy pursuing future success or just enjoying the hippie scene. The scope of the story has the primary group about a dozen and a half people, who knew one another and how responded coming from a life of plenty to the harsh realities of the recession of the early 1970's, significant relationships and in some cases even parenthood.
Each relates how they lived a dream life (compared even to other Americans) when young to the realization that their experiences were making their way in the world.
The insights shared had a powerful influence on me at age 12 (when it was released) and I read it multiple times (I had stolen it from my mom's stash of trashy books)... Looking back, I wished we had discussed it. My brother had a friend who had died in the Kent State Protests. It changed him. He never talked about it. Ever.
While not a true sociological study, this book was very intriguing as to the coping and realizations of those who saw their friends go to war and never return.
Each relates how they lived a dream life (compared even to other Americans) when young to the realization that their experiences were making their way in the world.
The insights shared had a powerful influence on me at age 12 (when it was released) and I read it multiple times (I had stolen it from my mom's stash of trashy books)... Looking back, I wished we had discussed it. My brother had a friend who had died in the Kent State Protests. It changed him. He never talked about it. Ever.
While not a true sociological study, this book was very intriguing as to the coping and realizations of those who saw their friends go to war and never return.
February 12, 2023
"I don't have to go on classmates.com. I know what the high school quarterback is doing these days. He's mowing my lawn".---Bill Maher
First, a confession. Michael Medved once asked me to be a guest on his radio show and I refused: "Given your right-wing politics, what would we say to each other?" to which his producer said to me, "But, we've had Noam Chomsky on the show!" A poor choice on my part; with that kind of publicity it could have been Senator Pino, Governor Pino. There just wasn't enough time, Michael. Strangely, it's the "maybes" and "could have been" of history that informs this book, Michael's look back at what happened to his graduating class of Pacific Palisades High School in 1965. Pacific Palisades is one of the richest communities in Southern California, and the class of 1965 was featured on the cover of TIME magazine that year. Mike's book became a huge bestseller and even a television series in the Seventies. Why? Part nostalgia and part schadenfreude. Thematically, Mike's trip back in time, by way of interviews with his former classmates, resembles Lawrence Kasden's THE BIG CHILL, or "the Sixties were one giant circle jerk". Let me save you some serious reading time. Elaine Smith went on to become Professor Elaine Smith of Princeton University, and Mike evolved into a best-selling author and right-wing talk show host, along with revolving into a practicing Orthodox Jew; everybody else from the class of '65 fucked up royally: The class trollop ("I used to ball two or three guys a day at the beach") went on to become a heroin addict strumpet; the class outcast, Riley Rigell, went into the Peace Corps in the South Pacific after failing at UCLA; the most popular man on campus became a gay minister for Christ; the most popular girl on campus, Candy, became Candace, the lacerating lesbian lawyer; and Jamie Kelso, the self-proclaimed "genius" wound up hosting STORMFRONT, America's most rabidly racist online forum. (Jamie once took a great shot at Mike for calling him a racist: "Would you like me to inform the world what you've told me about Black people over dinner?") and assorted nuts---the dope dealer who spent years in a Lebanese prison; the professional hippie who now calls himself "Donald Golden"; and the quiet dude who joined the Hare Krishna. Do these folks bring back some memories? Turns out there is life after high school---a weird life.
First, a confession. Michael Medved once asked me to be a guest on his radio show and I refused: "Given your right-wing politics, what would we say to each other?" to which his producer said to me, "But, we've had Noam Chomsky on the show!" A poor choice on my part; with that kind of publicity it could have been Senator Pino, Governor Pino. There just wasn't enough time, Michael. Strangely, it's the "maybes" and "could have been" of history that informs this book, Michael's look back at what happened to his graduating class of Pacific Palisades High School in 1965. Pacific Palisades is one of the richest communities in Southern California, and the class of 1965 was featured on the cover of TIME magazine that year. Mike's book became a huge bestseller and even a television series in the Seventies. Why? Part nostalgia and part schadenfreude. Thematically, Mike's trip back in time, by way of interviews with his former classmates, resembles Lawrence Kasden's THE BIG CHILL, or "the Sixties were one giant circle jerk". Let me save you some serious reading time. Elaine Smith went on to become Professor Elaine Smith of Princeton University, and Mike evolved into a best-selling author and right-wing talk show host, along with revolving into a practicing Orthodox Jew; everybody else from the class of '65 fucked up royally: The class trollop ("I used to ball two or three guys a day at the beach") went on to become a heroin addict strumpet; the class outcast, Riley Rigell, went into the Peace Corps in the South Pacific after failing at UCLA; the most popular man on campus became a gay minister for Christ; the most popular girl on campus, Candy, became Candace, the lacerating lesbian lawyer; and Jamie Kelso, the self-proclaimed "genius" wound up hosting STORMFRONT, America's most rabidly racist online forum. (Jamie once took a great shot at Mike for calling him a racist: "Would you like me to inform the world what you've told me about Black people over dinner?") and assorted nuts---the dope dealer who spent years in a Lebanese prison; the professional hippie who now calls himself "Donald Golden"; and the quiet dude who joined the Hare Krishna. Do these folks bring back some memories? Turns out there is life after high school---a weird life.
November 16, 2019
Author Michael Medved is one of my favorite conservative radio talk show hosts and political pundits, a purveyor of Intelligent and witty banter and caustic humor. He is sanguine and articulate in stating his opinion but, on the radio, respectfully listens to his guests’ comments and opinions, and graciously defends his position on various topics ranging from religion to politics to marriage and psychology. I had been a fan for years when I discovered “What Really Happened to the Class if ‘65.”
I, too, graduated with the class of ‘65, not from privileged Pacific Palisades HS in affluent Southern CA, but from a small redneck-rough town on the rugged coast of Northern CA, fishing and lumber village Fort Bragg and FB Union HS. Seeing the cover on a bookshelf in my favorite bookstore, the title piqued my interest. I had remembered perusing the 1975 Time magazine article, the inspiration for the 1976 book of the same name, whereby the Palisade students were profiled. I was intrigued to read about me and my generation, albeit somewhat more financially privileged. By contrast, I also remembered an earlier (1969?) magazine article profiling Fort Bragg/Mendocino County as the patently illegal “marijuana capitol” of the world, the renowned Emerald Triangle of lawlessness entrepreneurship, my hometown rampant with guns, drugs and questionable characters.
I was interested in Medved’s story, to see “how the other side lives.” I was intrigued by the concept of “whatever happened to . . .” I had missed my own class reunions up through year twenty, due to other commitments,e.g., Vietnam, a military career and world assignments. So this question frequently popped into my mind. Whatever happened to . . . Don and Steve and Carol and Mary? Whatever happened to the Class President, the Homecoming Queen, the jock and the head cheerleader? The hit girl down the block, the class clown? Little did I realize — there’s a book there.
Time magazine described these youngsters as “on the verge of the Golden Era.” Ten years later they had gone through the sexual revolution, civil rights and civil disobedience, the women’s movement, Vietnam, race riots in Watts and Detroit, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Nixon and Watergate. Oh, and don’t forget — drugs with a capital ‘D.’ A decade of unrest and upheaval. Medved and his co-author, David Wallechinsky, profiled many of their more prominent classmates. They named names, peeled back painful layers of consciousness, spilled blood and exposed veins. . There were lots of examples of wasted opportunity, squandered potential, pain and sadness, only a few moments of spontaneity and joy. As Julia mentioned in her review of the book, “The golden era was not so golden.”
I found myself being able to relate to more than just a few of Medved’s classmates, finding things common to me, events and experiences common to some of my own friends. I was able to make it to my 25 year reunion, to my 50 year reunion, as well as several reunions in between. The book inspired me to reach out and reconnect, not only with high school classmates, but many friends and acquaintances from college and my many years in the Army.
I’ve read with pleasure and intrigue other books of this genre, these coming-of-age, entering adulthood memoir-style treatments. Examples: “Goat Brothers,” the story of five frat brothers in the 1960s at U.C. Berkeley. “The Long Grey Line,” the story of the graduating class of 1966 at West Point Military Academy, the story of brand new butter bars who blindly and innocently were thrown into the jaws of the Vietnam War. “The Boys of ‘67,” the story of thousands of young men recruited and drafted from the cities and towns of America, fresh from the Saturday night cruise to the jungles of Vietnam.
I find these books to be most fascinating and somewhat voyeuristic, peeking in on the lives of these real-life characters. in the long run, I discovered there as not much difference Palisade HS versus FB Union HS. We all tread water and, ultimately, find our own path, either by determination or by circumstance, only for the few by birthright or birth place.
I, too, graduated with the class of ‘65, not from privileged Pacific Palisades HS in affluent Southern CA, but from a small redneck-rough town on the rugged coast of Northern CA, fishing and lumber village Fort Bragg and FB Union HS. Seeing the cover on a bookshelf in my favorite bookstore, the title piqued my interest. I had remembered perusing the 1975 Time magazine article, the inspiration for the 1976 book of the same name, whereby the Palisade students were profiled. I was intrigued to read about me and my generation, albeit somewhat more financially privileged. By contrast, I also remembered an earlier (1969?) magazine article profiling Fort Bragg/Mendocino County as the patently illegal “marijuana capitol” of the world, the renowned Emerald Triangle of lawlessness entrepreneurship, my hometown rampant with guns, drugs and questionable characters.
I was interested in Medved’s story, to see “how the other side lives.” I was intrigued by the concept of “whatever happened to . . .” I had missed my own class reunions up through year twenty, due to other commitments,e.g., Vietnam, a military career and world assignments. So this question frequently popped into my mind. Whatever happened to . . . Don and Steve and Carol and Mary? Whatever happened to the Class President, the Homecoming Queen, the jock and the head cheerleader? The hit girl down the block, the class clown? Little did I realize — there’s a book there.
Time magazine described these youngsters as “on the verge of the Golden Era.” Ten years later they had gone through the sexual revolution, civil rights and civil disobedience, the women’s movement, Vietnam, race riots in Watts and Detroit, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Nixon and Watergate. Oh, and don’t forget — drugs with a capital ‘D.’ A decade of unrest and upheaval. Medved and his co-author, David Wallechinsky, profiled many of their more prominent classmates. They named names, peeled back painful layers of consciousness, spilled blood and exposed veins. . There were lots of examples of wasted opportunity, squandered potential, pain and sadness, only a few moments of spontaneity and joy. As Julia mentioned in her review of the book, “The golden era was not so golden.”
I found myself being able to relate to more than just a few of Medved’s classmates, finding things common to me, events and experiences common to some of my own friends. I was able to make it to my 25 year reunion, to my 50 year reunion, as well as several reunions in between. The book inspired me to reach out and reconnect, not only with high school classmates, but many friends and acquaintances from college and my many years in the Army.
I’ve read with pleasure and intrigue other books of this genre, these coming-of-age, entering adulthood memoir-style treatments. Examples: “Goat Brothers,” the story of five frat brothers in the 1960s at U.C. Berkeley. “The Long Grey Line,” the story of the graduating class of 1966 at West Point Military Academy, the story of brand new butter bars who blindly and innocently were thrown into the jaws of the Vietnam War. “The Boys of ‘67,” the story of thousands of young men recruited and drafted from the cities and towns of America, fresh from the Saturday night cruise to the jungles of Vietnam.
I find these books to be most fascinating and somewhat voyeuristic, peeking in on the lives of these real-life characters. in the long run, I discovered there as not much difference Palisade HS versus FB Union HS. We all tread water and, ultimately, find our own path, either by determination or by circumstance, only for the few by birthright or birth place.
July 31, 2015
I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this book. It was touching, well-written, and very funny in parts.
It was also interesting to notice how much has changed and yet how much remains the same in the societal mindset over the years. A few examples:
Feminism:
Lynn Marble, referred to in the book as "The Lady with a Rose" is quoted as saying, "I feel that if men in America were secure in themselves and strong, then this women's lib would be stupid. Woman's strength is in supporting her husband. What she can get from that is far beyond what she could win through any tirades or demands for equal rights."
Racism:
Anita Champion, "Good Wife and Mother", "Ten years ago you could see a couple of colored maids on Friday afternoon waiting to get the bus to go home. Now you drive down Sunset Boulevard and every single bus stop has at least twenty-five or thirty black kids standing on the corner. They're not, from what I've seen, causing any trouble. They're not throwing things at cars or yelling anything. It's hard to get used to, that's all."
We've come a long way, baby... or have we?
It was also interesting to notice how much has changed and yet how much remains the same in the societal mindset over the years. A few examples:
Feminism:
Lynn Marble, referred to in the book as "The Lady with a Rose" is quoted as saying, "I feel that if men in America were secure in themselves and strong, then this women's lib would be stupid. Woman's strength is in supporting her husband. What she can get from that is far beyond what she could win through any tirades or demands for equal rights."
Racism:
Anita Champion, "Good Wife and Mother", "Ten years ago you could see a couple of colored maids on Friday afternoon waiting to get the bus to go home. Now you drive down Sunset Boulevard and every single bus stop has at least twenty-five or thirty black kids standing on the corner. They're not, from what I've seen, causing any trouble. They're not throwing things at cars or yelling anything. It's hard to get used to, that's all."
We've come a long way, baby... or have we?
June 2, 2008
Conservative radio host Michael Medwed is also a baal teshuva (a Jew who was raised secular and became religious), and I think it is a very BT-thing to wonder, after changing your own life so radically, if the people from your past did something similar. But whether that was his motivation or not, this book is a series of interviews with members of his high school class to explore the question, "What have you been doing since high school?" Since this was the class of '65, the answers were very much affected by the times. Some became hippies; one went to Vietnam. In fact, one whole chapter was dedicated to asking the men, "How did you get out of the draft?" The women, for their part, came out on different sides about the feminist movement. And amongst the men and the women, there were some real tragedies.
I was fascinated by the many different paths these people took. And two things made it especially interesting. First, Medwed and his co-author pointed out the consistencies in the high school personality and the adult one, even if the external circumstances were drastically different. And a second part I really loved was that they asked the people what they thought happened to their classmates. The answers were so wrong, it was funny, which only goes to prove how unpredictable life can be.
Anyone who likes creative non-fiction about average people's lives will like this book.
I was fascinated by the many different paths these people took. And two things made it especially interesting. First, Medwed and his co-author pointed out the consistencies in the high school personality and the adult one, even if the external circumstances were drastically different. And a second part I really loved was that they asked the people what they thought happened to their classmates. The answers were so wrong, it was funny, which only goes to prove how unpredictable life can be.
Anyone who likes creative non-fiction about average people's lives will like this book.
November 11, 2018
I love the concept of this book - a 'whatever happened to...?' book written in 1975, a decade after Time magazine profiled kids of a 1965 Palisades (California) high school class. So, yeah, it was interesting to find out where the students' lives had gone in those ten years, and if who they were in high school was an indicator of who they would become.
BUT, I found the author's comments really jarring. Perhaps it is just not the style of today, but I found their biased summations of characters were just, well, weird.
It would be really interesting to read about the students' lives now.
BUT, I found the author's comments really jarring. Perhaps it is just not the style of today, but I found their biased summations of characters were just, well, weird.
It would be really interesting to read about the students' lives now.
October 19, 2008
I was the class of '64 at Pali High so I found this book especially interesting since most of the names were familiar. Enjoyed this snapshot of our teenager years in the rapidly-changing '60s but it's important to note this took place in an affluent community where most of the students drove better cars than the teachers!
June 17, 2014
There are few books that have changed the course of my life. This book was one of them. It was almost spiritual. Weird, I know.
July 30, 2014
I graduated from high school in 1975. I remember reading this on the eve of my high school graduation and thinking where will our classmates be in ten years? Interesting and nostalgic!
September 13, 2017
This got widespread interest when it was published. How much of that attention was voyeurism, salaciousness and fodder for gossip is beyond judging. I was uninterested in it but read it due to peer pressure just to be able to hold my own in social conversations. (Books of that kind I generally don't bother to add to my list. I'm not sure why I'm giving this one such undue attention.) Its popularity upon publication I ascribe to "early onset nostalgia" on the part of those children of the sixties who felt they'd missed out on something. You are unlikely to know any of the people in the book but you surely had their doppelgangers in your class. The "types" are universal.
Another reviewer asked, "Why should I care?" Why, indeed?
Another reviewer asked, "Why should I care?" Why, indeed?
April 17, 2022
Want to know what happened in the late sixties? Well, the documentaries may give you the wrong impression. The sixties weren't a monolith. The stories in this book reveal the diversity of experience. I think the difference was: suddenly, more paths were available for the young. The one misstep was the interview with the former classmate suffering from mental illness. The authors suddenly became judgmental, after reserving judgment in the other interviews.
August 27, 2017
This was an interesting book that took me back to the social upheaval of 1965-1975. Time magazine described the class of '65 Palisades HS in LA as American youth "on the fringe of a golden era." Ten years later this book was written about what really happened in their lives. (Vietnam Nan, Kennedy's assignation, drug, free love, women's movement). The golden era was not so golden!
February 13, 2017
1st Read: February 16, 1991 - February 27, 1991 (***** Rating)
I was just starting out on my own, facing new obstacles and more important, giving up a life I'd always thought would be a part of who I was. It had really appealed to me that now was the time for me to read this book. I had found myself relating to more than a few of the people in this story. I am pretty certain that anyone who has read this book has felt the same way.
This truly was a great read. It had been a step up into reading about the things that do happen to people, either by choice or by circumstance. It was also a result of maturing quicker than many of my friends at this point in my life, which had me connect more than I should have.
Getting through this book had felt like I had been on a spiritual journey, voyage or something else. It was life changing for me for sure. I loved it then and when I do read it again, I am sure I will enjoy it even more!
2nd Read: February 1, 2017 - February 6th, 2017 (**** Rating)
Having finished this book for the second time, I enjoyed it about as much as the first time I'd picked it up. I think it would be awesome if the author's did a follow up book to this one, seeing as they're all now in their years of retirement, being sixty-nine and seventy years old.
I was just starting out on my own, facing new obstacles and more important, giving up a life I'd always thought would be a part of who I was. It had really appealed to me that now was the time for me to read this book. I had found myself relating to more than a few of the people in this story. I am pretty certain that anyone who has read this book has felt the same way.
This truly was a great read. It had been a step up into reading about the things that do happen to people, either by choice or by circumstance. It was also a result of maturing quicker than many of my friends at this point in my life, which had me connect more than I should have.
Getting through this book had felt like I had been on a spiritual journey, voyage or something else. It was life changing for me for sure. I loved it then and when I do read it again, I am sure I will enjoy it even more!
2nd Read: February 1, 2017 - February 6th, 2017 (**** Rating)
Having finished this book for the second time, I enjoyed it about as much as the first time I'd picked it up. I think it would be awesome if the author's did a follow up book to this one, seeing as they're all now in their years of retirement, being sixty-nine and seventy years old.
February 16, 2023
I found an old note from "What Really Happened to the Class of '65" by Michael Medved. Most of my notes do not make much sense; people's names, like Pete Seeger, waist deep in the Big Easy.
The book I read had passages highlighted in yellow. I wondered if my sister was the one who highlighted stuff. "Heartfelt love letter," might have been something she would highlight. Out of context, have no idea why I noted it.
"Most of the time we were bored. Despite what you've read about how exciting the '60s were, those of us who grew up in them, spent a great deal of time, looking for something to do."
My thought: when people talk about the '60s, it is really about late 1960s and early 1970s. It was 1966 when the coolest girl in my high school class, stopped teasing, hairspraying stiff her hair, to let it grow straight and long. I rated the book 2 stars, so I must not have related to it very much.
The book I read had passages highlighted in yellow. I wondered if my sister was the one who highlighted stuff. "Heartfelt love letter," might have been something she would highlight. Out of context, have no idea why I noted it.
"Most of the time we were bored. Despite what you've read about how exciting the '60s were, those of us who grew up in them, spent a great deal of time, looking for something to do."
My thought: when people talk about the '60s, it is really about late 1960s and early 1970s. It was 1966 when the coolest girl in my high school class, stopped teasing, hairspraying stiff her hair, to let it grow straight and long. I rated the book 2 stars, so I must not have related to it very much.
September 18, 2016
It's about a class from Palisades, CA, one of the richest cities at the time. The article talked about the privilege and promising future of these teens. 10 years after the article was published, two guys from that class wrote a book to see if the class lived up to the expectations. Since they can't feature everyone from class, they chose their more interesting/stereotypical classmates. You can say almost everyone went on a different path. Most of the stories were sad, mostly were cautionary tales. I read this book during the time when I was also lost and didn't know what to do with my life. It made me realize that I had to do something and start as soon as possible if I wanted to succeed.
September 30, 2023
This was a re-read for me, first completed when it was originally published. The authors, two members of the Class of 1965 that was featured in a national magazine article, wanted to discover what actually happened to their classmates. Filled with the interviews of their fellow grads, what they remember of their HS peers, and their peers' thoughts about the others, we have a view of what was, what was expected from them, and what actually happened to them.
I'd like to know a couple of Whatever Happened to... for the class of 2000, the first class of the new millennium.
I'd like to know a couple of Whatever Happened to... for the class of 2000, the first class of the new millennium.
January 25, 2016
What Really happened to the Class of '65? by Michael Medved (Random House Inc. 1976) (373.755). Author Michael Medved interviewed many of his high school classmates at the time of their ten year reunion and wrote a book about the progress and changes of each. This was the first tell-all expose I ever happened upon, and I found it to be completely fascinating and salacious as a teen! My rating: 7/10, finished 1976.
January 11, 2013
Just saw Michael Medved on CNN and it reminded me of this book, now over 35 years old. This was a ten-year snapshot of the members of his class; I wonder what a 40 year retrospective would uncover? I read this book in the late 70s and my rating is based on my memory of that reading. It would be interesting to see how the work stands up in 2013. Still thinking about if I really want to do it.....
August 19, 2025
I really enjoyed this one!
It's pretty dated so there are definitely some comments and phrases that make you side eye and think yeah... glad we moved on from saying THAT.
Overall though it's an interesting look at a class that graduated in the middle of the 1960s and then was checked in on again ten years later. The paths that their lives took were sometimes wildly different from where they expected them to go which goes to prove life is unpredictable at best.
It's pretty dated so there are definitely some comments and phrases that make you side eye and think yeah... glad we moved on from saying THAT.
Overall though it's an interesting look at a class that graduated in the middle of the 1960s and then was checked in on again ten years later. The paths that their lives took were sometimes wildly different from where they expected them to go which goes to prove life is unpredictable at best.
August 14, 2011
I attended Pali High for one semester before my father's transfer to Ohio, so this was a fascinating read. And it really brought home the many reasons why, as a transplant from middle class Pennsylvania, I was truly an outsider, and could never enter Pali High's inner circle. Wonder where they are now, as retirees?
June 25, 2007
Picked this book up many years ago on the 25 cent rack. Really interesting look at what life was like for American teenagers in the mid-60's.
March 13, 2015
I don't know why I thought this would be interesting; it may provide an interesting snapshot of teen life in the 60's, but, as I asked myself after a few pages, why do I care?
September 5, 2012
The book follows the lives of the students of the class '65 in Pali High. Even though, I live in a very different country and at a different age, I could identify with the students.
November 11, 2020
Interesting book of what became of a typical California class. Some went to Vietnam, etc.
July 31, 2013
Interesting book onchanges into the 70's. I lived this, although my 1966 class were slow starters as we were army brats. Enjoyable read.
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August 16, 2020
August 16, 2020. Just finished my fourth reading of this book since the summer of 1977. I connected with this book on a more personal level than any other of the many books I have read.
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