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Writing
Music
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Encounters and Transitions
The Times of My Life
A portrait of a turbulent era refracted through my experiences.
Contents
Life Matters
Red Diapers
Party Time
Americanism and its Discontents
Party Over
Dancing On
Luminaries
Paul Robeson
Pete Seeger
Allen Ginsberg
Paul Feyerabend
Brief Encounters
(The King’s Forebearance; My Nobel; Number One Quark; The Mother of Improv)
Musical Escapades and Crimes
I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill
Americana Summer
Arrests on the Spanish Steps and an Averted Kidnapping
Mance and Me
LA Party with a Surprise Guest
My Guitar Guru
Earth Day Soundtrack
Becoming a Sixties Student Radical
Marching with Linus
Big Splash at Berkeley
Keeping the Faith
Guns on Campus
Not Nice for Civil Rights
Columbia Rises
Restless Farewell
Maverick Academic
The Big Game
Skeletons on the Path
Science and Society
Through the Looking Glass
Chairman Paul
Exit Cue
Tellus Institute
Origin Story
Full Throttle
The Insurrectionist
(Coup in Kenya; Fratricide in Grenada; Rebellion on L.I.; Collapse of the USSR; Intifada)
Reinvention
Nudging the World
Workshift/Worldshift
Toward a Great Transition
Imagine All the People