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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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