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Captain Midnight And The California Dream
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Book Synopsis Captain Midnight and the California Dream by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book Captain Midnight and the California Dream written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM is an impressionistic journey of more than 50 years of extremely uneven and often strangely disconnected experiences in California. It stretches from the author's father's hardscrabble ranch in the remote mountains above Los Angeles, through ups and downs in an always-unpredictable California, ending, more or less, at a lonely and primitive ranch in the desert. The book is filled with unique characters, bizarre situations, and views of an always changing and, the author would charge, deteriorating California. From city streets to quiet rural areas, the author seems to have been aware of an ominous cloud filled with unease hovering over the Golden State. In this book he chronicles his drift of over 50 years in the shadow of this cloud, the California dream dim and elusive. Real, but only a dream...
Book Synopsis California Pop by : Dorian MacDougall
Download or read book California Pop written by Dorian MacDougall and published by Dorian MacDougall. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1542, Spanish explorers landed upon the shores of Southern California expecting to find a terrestrial paradise and instead, found only a burnt-over desert. But during a four-hundred-year-long metamorphosis carried out by thousands of dissimilar individuals of far-flung imagination and fixed purpose, Southern California was transformed into the nation's most promised land-a tangible symbol of all the best life had to offer in mid-twentieth-century America. And at that glorious pinnacle of middle-class, suburban grace, it would remain no more than twenty years. But to this very day, it is those few years that continue to define the image and culture of Southern California in the imaginations of people from all around the world. California Pop tells the tale of how this once reviled region became one of the most celebrated slivers of coastline on the planet.
Book Synopsis Spaceships and Liquor by : Dayton Limmus
Download or read book Spaceships and Liquor written by Dayton Limmus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPACESHIPS AND LIQUOR is a collection of both amusing and deadly serious essays, vignettes and commentaries on life in contemporary America. The author includes a section he calls Politically Incorrect, wherein he trods in opinionated territory, not always comfortably. You may not agree, but you will not be bored. Balancing this are more neutral and light-hearted views of the authors friends and his various involvements. Someone said to him recently, Didnt I see you this summer in Moscow? The author invites the reader to return with him from an African adventure and travel across three time zones from east to west in the United Statesa mental travelogue. And to join him on some imagined intellectual precipice to enjoy the viewbefore jumping!
Book Synopsis In the Velvet of Universal Emptiness by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book In the Velvet of Universal Emptiness written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth volume of what is now known as “The Notational Quintet,” a collection of acerbic and penetrating views of our contemporary society. The author tends toward pessimism but there are occasional bright rays that engender some hope. In reading these pieces you may be disturbed—occasionally outraged—but not bored. Good for deck reading on SS Titanic...
Download or read book Ramblin' Bob written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stage and film actor Peter Holden (Parkhurst) has called Dayton Lummis a cosmic town crier. Indeed, that he is, and more. This latest volume, Ramblin Bob, will reveal that. Read it! The California social critic Tom Englezos said of Lummiss previous collection of acerbic thoughts and often politically incorrect observations: I thoroughlyand absolutelyenjoyed NOTES. I was informed, andoftenoutraged! Great stuff. Damn! I hope you have more coming. A lot more! Ramblin Bob is more. And still more
Book Synopsis When Earl Was King Neptune by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book When Earl Was King Neptune written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN EARL WAS KING NEPTUNE is a keenly insightful account of the author's family, and of his personal experiences, observations and intersections with people, places and events in the last half of the 20th century in the Northeast portion of the United States. His story is told with great interpretative skill, wit and occasional humor and at times considerable cynicism. Part history, sociology and biography, the people, places and events, along with the author's sharp personal observations, that make up When Earl Was King Neptune, will stay with the reader long after the book is finished and put aside. They are of the life and mind before cyberspace took control
Book Synopsis Fly Me To The Moon by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book Fly Me To The Moon written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To some this collection of commentary and observations—fourth in what now must be called “The Notational Quartet”—might seem as remote as the proverbial “Man in the Moon.” But the reader will find it very relevant to the changing and troubled times that we find ourselves in. The author has steered the reader and vessel to a distant and little known shore, where hope for return to point of origin is very much in doubt. “The boats that left from the same harbor have rowed away from one another...”
Download or read book The Road Ahead written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road Ahead is something that we all are on, and like the old saying, When you come to a fork in the roadtake it, you will travel with the author in this volume of rambling thoughts, observations and acerbic opinions with a certain amount of unease. You are not expected to agree, but may be provoked, challenged, and occasionally outraged. The author reminds us that America is at a tipping point beyond which a whole new society awaits. Whether that will be good or badwe wont know until we are there. And, if The Shadow Knowshe aint tellin
Book Synopsis Clippings from the Vine by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book Clippings from the Vine written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLIPPINGS FROM THE VINE consists of selections from the author's seven published books, and concludes with a series of contemporary personal essays, observations and opinions as we enter the Obama Era of hopefully positive change. Ranging from Coast to Coast, all over the Inter-mountain West, and covering a period of almost sixty years, the author deftly chronicles his experiences and the characters he has encountered (such as desert rat "Mr. James," featured on the cover). He does so with wit, insight and frequent discontent. These selections can be read as a cross section of a greatly changing America. Whether for the best or not is always on the author's mind. Clippings From The Vine is "solid America," of a type we shall see little or any of in the future "instant media society." And, the author asks you not to judge him, until you've walked the streets of Victor, Colorado...
Book Synopsis He Caught the Westbound by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book He Caught the Westbound written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He caught the westbound is an old American hobo expression for someone who has departed from this life. In the case of this book it is employed to be symbolic of a passing American way of life and the people who created that. We live in troubled times, and the author often uncomfortably reminds us so. Yet positive travel experiences relieve the pessimism wherein the author says, It could be worse. But not much . . .
Download or read book DEATH BY DEVICE written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author freely admits that “devices” are not all bad. For better or worse they have changed the world. But this book ranges far from the subject of the effects of “devices,” often into areas distinctly “politically incorrect.” Some commentary is amusing; others might be seen as “disturbing.” This is a good companion book for your “one-way trip to Mars!” Read it, and you will never be the same again! Nor will be the society described. We live in changing times; there is a distinct sense of a “rising sadness” for lost America...
Book Synopsis NOTES: The Psychic Dislocations of Dayton Lummis by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book NOTES: The Psychic Dislocations of Dayton Lummis written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is just what it says it is—NOTES! Assembled from the author's collection of the last 40 years. Ranging from politically incorrect to absurdly romantic to disturbingly insightful, they are like darts thrown blindfolded; they hit what they will. From coast to coast, city to high mountains and lonely desert, almost no subject of contemporary America is left untouched. You may not agree, but you will not be bored.
Download or read book Vanishing Point written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VANISHING POINT is an eclectic collection of the author’s writings ranging from short fiction pieces, and a disturbing account of “a difficult period” in early 1960s San Francisco, to personal observations in the first years of the 21st century. There are brief vignettes that capture aspects of the American character, from positive to cynically critical. Throughout the volume the author writes with crisp insight, humor, and occasional existential despair, which adds up to a unique American story...
Book Synopsis Poor Man's Medicine by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book Poor Man's Medicine written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POOR MAN’S MEDICINE is the third volume of what can be called “The Notational Trilogy”—acerbic views, interpretations and opinions about contemporary human existence, society, the environment, culture, and everything else. These pieces are sometimes wistful thoughts of things past, or often unease about the future that we are being dragged into. About previous books in this trilogy, readers have said they have been “informed, amused and—often—outraged!” These reactions will continue, and, as before, the reader WILL NOT BE BORED!
Book Synopsis Martian Desert Afternoon by : Dayton Lummis
Download or read book Martian Desert Afternoon written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARTIAN DESERT AFTERNOON is an impressionistic collection of "poetic statements" about America, places and people, in the last half of the Twentieth Centuryobservations, impressions, descriptions. All of which contain perceptive insight on what is sometimes referred to as Many a Vanished Sight" There are moments when the perceptions seem almost at the point of madness, but generally the work is a sort of wandering psychedelic journey across America. And, at times, "into America"
Book Synopsis Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by : Kevin Starr
Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Book Synopsis The Glory and the Dream by : William Manchester
Download or read book The Glory and the Dream written by William Manchester and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 2245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times–bestselling historian’s in-depth portrait of life in America, from the Depression era to the early 1970s: “Magnificent” (The New York Times). Award-winning historian and biographer William Manchester, author of The Last Lion, an epic three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, brings us an evocative exploration of the American way of life from 1932 to 1972. Covering almost every facet of American culture during a very diverse and tumultuous period in history, Manchester’s account is both dramatic and surprisingly intimate—with compelling details that could only be known by a dedicated historian who lived through and documented this fascinating time. It’s an enlightening, affecting, and highly entertaining journey through four extraordinary decades in the life of America. “There is no fiction that can compete with good, gossipy, anecdotal history—the inside story of who said or did what in moments of great tensions or crisis . . . I think you ought to read this history and weep, read it and laugh, read it and don’t repeat it.” —Anatole Broyard
