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About this Book
"I can’t be a grandpa. I was at Woodstock!"
“With apologies to the late great Lord Buckley and his classic Beatnik paean
to Julius Caesar: ‘Hipsters, flipsters and finger poppin’ daddies, knock me
your lobes …,’ I have come to celebrate the Sixties, not to bury us.”
Rest assured there will be no wringing of my newly
liver spotted hands, no bemoaning the crow’s feet around my eyes or the
creak in my knees. Nor will I take you on some kind of Peter Max-inspired
sexagenarian acid trip of earthly delights awaiting all of us as soon as we
jump on the mother ship. And, just in case you’re wondering, I am decidedly
not offering up the same establishment-driven drivel that crowds the
shelves of our mega bookstores: The Five (Seven-Ten-Twelve) Habits of
Successful 60-Something CEOs Who Have Figured Out How To Avoid Aging and
Death Through Offshore Investment … or The Five (Seven-Ten-Twelve)
Gates to the Gloriously Transcendent and Marvelously Revisionist Golden
Years.
And so Steven Lewis begins this funky, friendly
riff on the cosmic-and not so cosmic-rhythms of a generation, unlike any
other generation. Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton is a bit like the
response to a Zen Koan, a mindful extended reflection on the seemingly
paradoxical wants and needs of the Question Authority Generation: a guided,
self-guided, non-manual manual that captures the spirit and imagination of a
spirited and imaginative generation charting uncharted new territory.
In this fresh and present journey into the second
Sixties (way way way out beyond the unholy trinity of Viagra, statins, and
early bird specials), you will find resonant and funny and unpredictable
licks on everything from post-sixty sex, drugs, and rock and roll to vivid
recollections of Vietnam and Woodstock to compellingly impolitic advice
about staying hip and relevant into and through the counter-culture’s
collective dotage.
It’s been a long strange trip from the Summer of
Love and, like it or not, the times they’ve been a changin’. With a little
help from their friends—and this good book—the Age of Aquarius is still far
out ahead of them.
About the Author
Steven Lewis is a
longtime Mentor at SUNY-Empire State College, an instructor at
the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, and active freelance writer
with credits from The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, New York Times, AARP Magazine, Ladies Home Journal,
and Christian Science Monitor. Previous books include Zen and the Art of
Fatherhood; The ABC’s of Real Family Values; The Complete
Guide for the Anxious Groom.
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