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Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family-real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth, and trauma. A masterful chronicle of the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between private life and profound cultural changes.Donald Katz begins his account in 1945, when Sam Gordon comes home from the war to his young wife, and two-year-old daughter, eager to move his family into the growing middle class. After a few years in the Bronx, Sam and Eve move to a new Long Island subdivision and have two more children. As the '50s yield to the '60s, the younger Gordons fly out into the culture like shrapnel from an artillery shell, each tracing a unique trajectory.Katz tells the Gordons' story-the unraveling of Sam's and Eve's American dream, to the slow, hopeful reknitting of the family-marshaling a vivid cast of supporting characters. Deftly juxtaposing day-to-day family life with landmark public events, Katz creates a rich and revealing portrait of the second half of 20th century America.
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Donald R. Katz
10 books11 followersDonald Katz is the author of "Home Fires," which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, "The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears," winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, and "Just Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World." His most recent book, "The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories," was recently published by AtRandom.com. He is a contributing editor for "Rolling Stone" and has been a contributor to "The New Republic, Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated," and "Men's Journal." His work has won and been nominated for several National Magazine Awards. Katz is the founder of Audible, Inc. the leading Internet provider of spoken-word audio.
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August 3, 2016Listening to newly released audio at the moment - very moving for me as this is my family. I've read the book twice. The first time I noticed all the errors and inconsistencies. The second time I was fascinated and delighted to have such a wonderfully detailed record - the likes of which few people are so lucky to have. Listening to the audio now that both Eve Gordon (my dear Nanny) and Lorraine (my mom) are no longer alive (Lorraine died this year, quite suddenly) is tremendously moving and I've been crying my way through it - in my car, while cleaning the bathroom, or cooking dinner. I can't judge this work objectively - it's too close to me and my life and the "characters" who people it are too dear to me, but I'm enjoying every moment this time, hearing things I completely missed the first two times, and am immensely grateful to Don Katz for making this available in a new format.
July 14, 2013
A really interesting idea -- a non-fiction narrative in which a reporter goes deep on one family and writes about everything they went through over four decades. I'm not convinced it worked, but I remember being in awe of the ambition. When I was younger, everything seemed ambitious, but the early '90s had a lot of ambitious journalistic books like this -- Tracy Kidder; Richard Ben Cramer's "What It Takes," etc.
May 26, 2015
My wife doesn't like non-ficiton and I don't like fiction. This audio book was the perfect compromise for us because it reads as good as any fiction book, but also tells the story about America from 1945 to 1993. It's a very good way for my wife to understand the quotidian history of America during that time period in the guise of marvelous story telling.
The author takes the story within one family and relates the current events to what's happening at the time. For example, Debbie Reynolds losing Eddie Fisher to Liz had meaning to the country and is explained by the biography of the family.
The book really excelled during the first half. Where Sid (the WW II) vet and his wife, Eve, are the main characters. The experiences they had and the things they struggled with are experiences that were endured by many Americans during that time.
A good biography needs to love the characters he is writing about. The author does that to a fault. Even when one of the sons liberates gold filing from a pile of what he called junk to sell later at the gold shop, the author defends the action by saying the gold was in a junk pile (yeah right, I'm gonna throw gold away). It's good to love your characters, but sometimes the character might be doing wrong.
The book really captures all the woo and pseudo-belief systems that were present during that time period (such as EST, gurus, and other psychic crap) and how the characters would drift in and out of such systems. The author will even appeal to 'recovery memories' as real (wiki tells me in general they are highly suspect). He does write in the 90s and I'm looking at it with today's skeptical eyes. That's a strength of the book. The author will always relate the psycho-babble to how some current article or book of the time. Totally legit since that's how they believed in those days.
Overall, this book is a marvelous way for people like my wife who get bored by history books, but still wants to know about history. I enjoyed the book too because it provided a real peek into a family who I cared about, and at the same time I got to learn a lot about the time period, and, in particular, how much neo-Freudian thought permeated the time period even in 1995.
The author takes the story within one family and relates the current events to what's happening at the time. For example, Debbie Reynolds losing Eddie Fisher to Liz had meaning to the country and is explained by the biography of the family.
The book really excelled during the first half. Where Sid (the WW II) vet and his wife, Eve, are the main characters. The experiences they had and the things they struggled with are experiences that were endured by many Americans during that time.
A good biography needs to love the characters he is writing about. The author does that to a fault. Even when one of the sons liberates gold filing from a pile of what he called junk to sell later at the gold shop, the author defends the action by saying the gold was in a junk pile (yeah right, I'm gonna throw gold away). It's good to love your characters, but sometimes the character might be doing wrong.
The book really captures all the woo and pseudo-belief systems that were present during that time period (such as EST, gurus, and other psychic crap) and how the characters would drift in and out of such systems. The author will even appeal to 'recovery memories' as real (wiki tells me in general they are highly suspect). He does write in the 90s and I'm looking at it with today's skeptical eyes. That's a strength of the book. The author will always relate the psycho-babble to how some current article or book of the time. Totally legit since that's how they believed in those days.
Overall, this book is a marvelous way for people like my wife who get bored by history books, but still wants to know about history. I enjoyed the book too because it provided a real peek into a family who I cared about, and at the same time I got to learn a lot about the time period, and, in particular, how much neo-Freudian thought permeated the time period even in 1995.
February 13, 2023
“Home Fires”. By Donald Katz (originally published in 1992, reissued and updated in 2014), is the true story of a middle-class American family from 1945 to 1990 “and beyond”, and it reads like a novel.
Starting with Samuel Goldenberg’s return from WWII to a wife he hasn’t seen in three years and a daughter he’s never met, Katz takes us on a compelling journey through the last half of the twentieth century. As a “boomer” I was especially interested in the ways the Goldenbergs (who change their name to Gordon) mirrored my own family, as well as the ways it does not.
Propulsive, educational, and a bit of a time machine, this documentation of the Gordon family’s joys and sorrows, highs and lows, challenges and failures, elicited empathy and understanding from this reader.
It’s worth noting that “the breakdown of the American family” is STILL being blamed for all our cultural “ills”.
Bottom line: plus ça change plus c'est la même chose! (The more things change, the more they stay the same!)
Starting with Samuel Goldenberg’s return from WWII to a wife he hasn’t seen in three years and a daughter he’s never met, Katz takes us on a compelling journey through the last half of the twentieth century. As a “boomer” I was especially interested in the ways the Goldenbergs (who change their name to Gordon) mirrored my own family, as well as the ways it does not.
Propulsive, educational, and a bit of a time machine, this documentation of the Gordon family’s joys and sorrows, highs and lows, challenges and failures, elicited empathy and understanding from this reader.
It’s worth noting that “the breakdown of the American family” is STILL being blamed for all our cultural “ills”.
Bottom line: plus ça change plus c'est la même chose! (The more things change, the more they stay the same!)
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July 5, 2014Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One American Family in post-war America, by Donald Katz with a new introduction written and narrated by Jonathan Alter, and a epilogue type ending by son Ricky Ian Gordon telling us what happened to the family, and read by him. The main book is narrated very well by Joe Barrett.Produced by Donald Katz, Downloaded from audible.com.
This book is long and extremely riveting and for me very emotional as it encompasses in one way or another most of the events of my own life. The publisher’s note says it best:
Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family - real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the
early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth,
and trauma - the recognizable components of family life. This is also a masterful chronicle of the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between
private life and profound cultural changes. Donald Katz begins his account in 1945, when Sam Gordon comes home from the war to his young wife, Eve, and
their two-year-old, Susan, eager to move his family into the growing middle class. After a few years in the Bronx, Sam and Eve move to a new Long Island
subdivision and have two more children. As the '50s yield to the '60s, the younger Gordons fly out into the culture like shrapnel from an artillery shell,
each tracing a unique trajectory: Susan, early into rock 'n' roll and civil rights, Vassar girl, feminist, author of "The Politics of Orgasm", and recovering
drug addict; Lorraine, teenage beatnik and leftie, one-time member of a women's rock band, longtime follower of an Indian religious teacher; Sheila, the
"good" daughter who married then remarried, with a big suburban house, two kids, and a therapist; and Ricky, the youngest, witness to the family traumas
and cause of a few himself, openly gay, eclectically New Age, and a successful songwriter and composer. And all Sam and Eve ever wanted - like millions
of others who had experienced the Depression and the war - was a "normal family". Katz tells the Gordons' story - the unraveling of Sam's and Eve's American
dream, to the slow, hopeful reknitting of the family - marshaling a vivid cast of supporting characters. Deftly juxtaposing day-to-day family life with
landmark public events, Katz creates a rich and revealing portrait of the second half of the 20th century in America.
This book is long and extremely riveting and for me very emotional as it encompasses in one way or another most of the events of my own life. The publisher’s note says it best:
Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family - real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the
early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth,
and trauma - the recognizable components of family life. This is also a masterful chronicle of the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between
private life and profound cultural changes. Donald Katz begins his account in 1945, when Sam Gordon comes home from the war to his young wife, Eve, and
their two-year-old, Susan, eager to move his family into the growing middle class. After a few years in the Bronx, Sam and Eve move to a new Long Island
subdivision and have two more children. As the '50s yield to the '60s, the younger Gordons fly out into the culture like shrapnel from an artillery shell,
each tracing a unique trajectory: Susan, early into rock 'n' roll and civil rights, Vassar girl, feminist, author of "The Politics of Orgasm", and recovering
drug addict; Lorraine, teenage beatnik and leftie, one-time member of a women's rock band, longtime follower of an Indian religious teacher; Sheila, the
"good" daughter who married then remarried, with a big suburban house, two kids, and a therapist; and Ricky, the youngest, witness to the family traumas
and cause of a few himself, openly gay, eclectically New Age, and a successful songwriter and composer. And all Sam and Eve ever wanted - like millions
of others who had experienced the Depression and the war - was a "normal family". Katz tells the Gordons' story - the unraveling of Sam's and Eve's American
dream, to the slow, hopeful reknitting of the family - marshaling a vivid cast of supporting characters. Deftly juxtaposing day-to-day family life with
landmark public events, Katz creates a rich and revealing portrait of the second half of the 20th century in America.
February 6, 2015
Another one of those books that sat on the shelf way too long. The true saga of the Gordon family from the end of WWII through 1992. The parents leave New York City for Long Island and their baby boomer children deal, with varying levels of success, with coming of age during the Vietnam war, and the rise of drugs, psychotherapy, feminism, yogis and other signs many interpreted as harbingers of the end times. Remarkable portrait of a family and lessons learned the hard way.
January 24, 2017
I loved this book when it came out. I related to the family growing up in a Long Island town next to where I grew up and I loved the social history woven in. Now I am reading it 20-plus years later and I can't believe how differently I feel about it. I can't stand the family, and the social history is inserted awkwardly and actually disrupts the narrative rather than enhances it.
April 25, 2020
While this book seemed to be well liked by many others, I’m afraid my interest in the story dropped like a rock in the 1962 chapter. That’s where the kids in the family started rebelling, sneaking out to NYC to listen to new singers, started using drugs, etc. If you know a lot about the ‘60s, either by what you’ve read or seen in films or if you were there, it’s all overly familiar stuff. Nothing new. You’ve read and seen it all before.
It’s interesting, though, the way this book told it, the four children could do whatever they wanted as teenagers. While the parents didn’t like much of what was going on, and what would go on in the future, they simply seemed to just pick up the pieces when need be. Seriously, the whole story turned into a big egomaniac one where the kids were concerned.
It was chapter after chapter of their drug use, sex lives, marriages, breakups, gurus, commune living, emotional problems, etc. It was like the whole world was revolving around them. The author broke up the egomania a bit by inserting detailed descriptions of what was going on in the world at the time, in case anyone reading the book had forgotten or didn’t know. Believe me, most baby boomers will already know those history lessons, unless they never read newspapers or news magazines, watched the news on TV, or discussed current events.
The dullest of it all, besides all the guru garbage, were the drug stories. I don’t know why so many authors, who aren’t writing books specifically on drugs, think readers are so incredibly interested in the drug usage or addictions of others. The oldest daughter became a hardcore drug addict, after a very successful journalism career, so there was no escaping drug talk from the 1960s to the end of this 600 page book. Gee, all those drug details were so fascinating, just like addicts themselves! Tell us more! (If anyone thinks this sounds too "judgmental" of addicts, do compare the oldest daughter's childhood with her daughter's childhood.)
By the time I reached the final page, I only had sympathy for the parents and the grandchildren, especially the two oldest. It was good to read that Sam, the father, eventually got a horse, and could then ride off away from his children and all of their opinions and problems. Although he never seemed actually overwhelmed by it all or bitter. In fact, he appeared to believe his children were simply products of their time, just like he and his wife were products of their time.
His wife Eve had an easier time handling things, because she did handle things, and saw it as her job, as a mother, to handle things. She had been a singer before marrying, and kept singing at home, which was also good to read. In addition, she regularly played cards with her women friends, and it was a big help to have others to talk to about what was going on in day-to-day life.
Don’t misunderstand this review, though. Or, at least, don’t let my review make you misunderstand the purpose of this book. The book was not intended to be one about a family with problem children. No, apparently it was intended to show the lives of a typical American family from the 1940s-1990s. The author obviously thought the lives of those in the Gordon family were terribly interesting. Personally, I did not, at least not the lives of Sam and Eve’s four children.
It’s interesting, though, the way this book told it, the four children could do whatever they wanted as teenagers. While the parents didn’t like much of what was going on, and what would go on in the future, they simply seemed to just pick up the pieces when need be. Seriously, the whole story turned into a big egomaniac one where the kids were concerned.
It was chapter after chapter of their drug use, sex lives, marriages, breakups, gurus, commune living, emotional problems, etc. It was like the whole world was revolving around them. The author broke up the egomania a bit by inserting detailed descriptions of what was going on in the world at the time, in case anyone reading the book had forgotten or didn’t know. Believe me, most baby boomers will already know those history lessons, unless they never read newspapers or news magazines, watched the news on TV, or discussed current events.
The dullest of it all, besides all the guru garbage, were the drug stories. I don’t know why so many authors, who aren’t writing books specifically on drugs, think readers are so incredibly interested in the drug usage or addictions of others. The oldest daughter became a hardcore drug addict, after a very successful journalism career, so there was no escaping drug talk from the 1960s to the end of this 600 page book. Gee, all those drug details were so fascinating, just like addicts themselves! Tell us more! (If anyone thinks this sounds too "judgmental" of addicts, do compare the oldest daughter's childhood with her daughter's childhood.)
By the time I reached the final page, I only had sympathy for the parents and the grandchildren, especially the two oldest. It was good to read that Sam, the father, eventually got a horse, and could then ride off away from his children and all of their opinions and problems. Although he never seemed actually overwhelmed by it all or bitter. In fact, he appeared to believe his children were simply products of their time, just like he and his wife were products of their time.
His wife Eve had an easier time handling things, because she did handle things, and saw it as her job, as a mother, to handle things. She had been a singer before marrying, and kept singing at home, which was also good to read. In addition, she regularly played cards with her women friends, and it was a big help to have others to talk to about what was going on in day-to-day life.
Don’t misunderstand this review, though. Or, at least, don’t let my review make you misunderstand the purpose of this book. The book was not intended to be one about a family with problem children. No, apparently it was intended to show the lives of a typical American family from the 1940s-1990s. The author obviously thought the lives of those in the Gordon family were terribly interesting. Personally, I did not, at least not the lives of Sam and Eve’s four children.
March 7, 2012
I loved this book, the story of one family from the 1940's through the 1970's. Even if the characters were trying and the fads unending, the nostalgia and sense of 'been there, done that' was ever present.
A post World War II family in New York raises four children in suburban Long Island. Middle class and Jewish, the three sisters and one brother go through the 1960's trying drugs, living in ashrams, experimenting with sexuality, religion, parenting, etc.
While some of the characters were difficult to like, this semi-ethnography takes us through the times by following one family's connections and chronology. By many standards, the Gordon family would be labeled dysfunctional and narcissistic. However, the intrinsic love and connection between family members that is often unconditional is both poignant and intense. This is a great read!
For those of you interested in what happens to the family members after this book ends, I recommend reading The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Susan Gordon Lydon, one of the family members in Home Fires.
A post World War II family in New York raises four children in suburban Long Island. Middle class and Jewish, the three sisters and one brother go through the 1960's trying drugs, living in ashrams, experimenting with sexuality, religion, parenting, etc.
While some of the characters were difficult to like, this semi-ethnography takes us through the times by following one family's connections and chronology. By many standards, the Gordon family would be labeled dysfunctional and narcissistic. However, the intrinsic love and connection between family members that is often unconditional is both poignant and intense. This is a great read!
For those of you interested in what happens to the family members after this book ends, I recommend reading The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Susan Gordon Lydon, one of the family members in Home Fires.
January 21, 2015
Fascinating Family Saga
Fifty years in the life of an American family, a year by year story of the life of that family--mom, dad, four kids--three girls and one boy, that reads like the best kind of multi generational fiction. The family experiences everything the fifties, sixties and seventies can throw at them from drug abuse to social unrest and comes out the other end wiser and actually happy. That the family is Jewish made the story resonate with me but the problems and issues the family faces throughout the decades are decidedly American problems. You will learn much about family dynamics from this book. And you might cry at the end. Read it.
Fifty years in the life of an American family, a year by year story of the life of that family--mom, dad, four kids--three girls and one boy, that reads like the best kind of multi generational fiction. The family experiences everything the fifties, sixties and seventies can throw at them from drug abuse to social unrest and comes out the other end wiser and actually happy. That the family is Jewish made the story resonate with me but the problems and issues the family faces throughout the decades are decidedly American problems. You will learn much about family dynamics from this book. And you might cry at the end. Read it.
February 15, 2018
This is a simple but ambitious concept -- to follow a single family from 1945 to the 1990s. Every year gets a chapter. The book gradually unspools the story of the Gordon family, a Jewish World II vet who becomes an electrician, his partner, who was a singer before becoming his wife, their three daughters, and their son, in meticulous detail. While doing this, it also tells the story of the changes in the country over the same time. It feels like a non-corny version of Forest Gump.
It's a long book, and the length serves it well, because the sheer breadth of detail makes the portrayal of the characters that much more intimate. It also helps that they kind of stand in for American archetypes: the hippie who falls into drugs, the 1950s housewife, the gay boy in the 1970s and 1980s. I listened to the audiobook, whose narrator did great accents and impressions of Bob Dylan, Richard Nixon, and other prominent figures who pass through the story.
It's a long book, and the length serves it well, because the sheer breadth of detail makes the portrayal of the characters that much more intimate. It also helps that they kind of stand in for American archetypes: the hippie who falls into drugs, the 1950s housewife, the gay boy in the 1970s and 1980s. I listened to the audiobook, whose narrator did great accents and impressions of Bob Dylan, Richard Nixon, and other prominent figures who pass through the story.
August 4, 2024
What I greatly appreciated about this book was how much historical research and heart went into writing it. It’s long, 600 pages. At points I kind of wanted to quit because I have a backlog of books I want to read, but I kept with this one because I felt so drawn into the Gordon family members and I wanted to know what happened to them! I loved reading about their true experiences, woven with the historical events of 1950’s through 1980’s, along with an analysis of the family in popular culture. I was also interested in the spiritual culture history (Integral Yoga and the Arica organizations). It caused me to reflect upon my own family experiences and the foundational love that binds us together. I can tell that I am going to be reflecting upon it for the next several days. At the moment I’m feeling both a sense of accomplishment to have completed it and a sense of excitement about moving onto other books on my reading list! Thank you Mr. Katz.
May 3, 2024
I read this book because it started when I was born and followed a Jewish family through the 60’s to the 90’s. I experienced all the turmoil of those years (black rights, VietNam, gay rights, drug culture, women’s rights, family disfunction) but never got involved like the Gordon family. I was an observer and sympathizer but not a mover and shaker. The Gordon’s were crusading, marching, indulging in everything and a total mess however bright and famous. They were shocking to me and I enjoyed all almost 1000 pages of this book. It brought back many memories. I don’t think anyone not invested in this time period would appreciate Home Fires.
July 26, 2020
This is a well written book and the premise of spending a chapter on each year of this family lives is really interesting. I liked how he inserted historical facts into each year as well - touching on LSD, civil rights, women's rights, et cetera. However, it is a ponderous read. For each interesting tid-bit, I feel also like I'm reading a bit of a textbook. I told myself to get through half of it and decide if I could do more and I've decided I just can't. I need something that I really look forward to reading in the hammock and this is just not one of them for me.
November 13, 2022
I was captivated by this audio book as it revealed much about the time period that spans the years my immediate family began. Although I wasn’t born until 1967, I grew up with stories from my parents and older siblings from the 1950s and 60s. But because my parents were a bit younger (graduating college and marrying in 1950 after returning from WW2), the Gordan’s cultural experiences really opened up my appreciation for events during these post war years.
February 15, 2019
Like having a front row seat to America from the 40's to the 90's. But also a beautiful examination into a messy (are there any other kind?) but loving family. Sometimes it dragged when talking about parts of recent American history I am familiar with, and sometimes something new about the American experience would appear to shock me from complacency.
February 6, 2025
Probably the best book I have read this year. Author follows a single family from the 1940's to the 90's. It is a long book in great detail. If you grew up in the 60's..like me...you will find it even more fascinating. A wonderful complex family story of success, challenges, train wreaks, recovery, and most of all enduring love.
October 17, 2023
It's been my absolute favorite book since 1994. I thought it was fiction and realized a third of the way in that it was non fiction! 29 years later, it's like a new book to me each time I read it again.
December 26, 2018
Whew, an epic. Some psycho study parts way to long.
June 2, 2024
I loved this book!
July 4, 2024
Fascinating lens to look through at post war America. Tracking the pop psych trends of the era and how the Gordon’s lived them completely. Very interesting.
June 10, 2025
AUDIOBOOK: This book is fascinating. It feels like fiction, but Katz very effectively weaves the historical context into the lives of the Gordan’. The audio book is very engaging and entertaining.
March 18, 2011
This was a great read. Donald Katz traces the course of a family over 50 years and weaves it in with the cultural and historical events of the time. The family is incredible - individual members manage to get themselves right in the middle of crazy historical goings-on on a pretty consistent basis (Woodstock, wine with Bob Dylan, meeting Joni Mitchell, marrying a founder of Rolling Stone, etc).
Some of the sociological context can go a little long, but it's mostly very interesting, and the stories about the family members themselves are very compelling.
I was particularly moved by the way he treated one of the adult children's long-term struggle with addiction, and by the empathy evident in his discussion of how a seemingly functional, intact, nuclear family can turn into one with so much trouble over such a long duration.
Some of the sociological context can go a little long, but it's mostly very interesting, and the stories about the family members themselves are very compelling.
I was particularly moved by the way he treated one of the adult children's long-term struggle with addiction, and by the empathy evident in his discussion of how a seemingly functional, intact, nuclear family can turn into one with so much trouble over such a long duration.
January 30, 2008
An amazing bit of social history. The author tells the true story of one family in Long Island during the last half of the 20th Century. In the midst of a thoroughly engaging family drama he manages to touch on major cultural currents and changes to the American psyche and the American family. A really good read.
October 27, 2007
This is the true story of a Long Island family comprised of Depression era parents with baby boomer kids who come of age in the 1960s. Generations clash as the young adults reject the lifestyle and values that the parents worked so hard to provide.
June 3, 2015
Excellent commentary on the social scene of the 1960's. Enlightening. The book is about an ordinary family based on interviews with the family and significant people in their lives. More pain than joy, it is tough to listen to at times.
January 11, 2008
Fascinating insight into the lives of a (mainstream) family of our parents and grandparents generation. Reads like fiction.
August 26, 2008
Didn’t finish; interesting but tome-like
April 18, 2016
I really enjoyed this. It was like re-living my life and times.
Anyone cool between the ages of 50s- 70swill relate. Everyone else will learn something.
Anyone cool between the ages of 50s- 70swill relate. Everyone else will learn something.
March 16, 2016
Soooooo boring
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