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Highlights of a Lowlife

Author : Milan Melvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986377006
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Highlights of a Lowlife written by Milan Melvin and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Milan Melvin was one of the most fascinating figures out of the sixties. In fact, a case could be made that he helped to shape the time of our lives. Peter Laufer is one of the sharpest journalists out of the sixties. In one of his last major decisions, Milan asked Peter to help him tell his story. Together they do, and it is one for the ages. Light up, buckle up and enjoy the flight. " -- Ben Fong-Torres "In a world of posers, Milan was the rare real thing. An adventurer and a strong friend. My friend. " -- David Crosby "When Milan Melvin rose point astride his iron palomino Harley, our caravan slept easy in the sixties, knowing he had one eye on the bad guys and heaven in his holster. " -- Wavy Gravy "Lean, lanky, self-contained, charming, and a natural gentleman - one of a dying breed even then. " -- Joan Baez Milan Melvin was a driven, elusive, creative, lovable adventurer who colored the lives of all around him. His many-faceted career started with a stint as an undercover operator for the FBI at UC Berkeley - until he started falsifying reports. He went on to trade Native American jewelry, import marijuana, hang with Hell's Angels, co-found alternative radio - notably the legendary KSAN San Francisco - work on films, produce music, befriend Janis Joplin, and marry Mimi Farina, the sister of Joan Baez, who wrote her very first song about him. Leaving America for 10 years, he lived with Tibetan Khampa guerrillas, funded a daycare center for Tibetan refugee children in Nepal, smuggled gems out of India, Burma and China, and manufactured jewelry in Thailand, before settling in Bali. On his return, Milan worked with film director Carl Gottlieb on "Caveman," appeared on "Saturday Night Live," produced TV shows and managed the acting career of former Oakland Raider John "Tooz" Matuszak. Returning to charitable work, he and his wife Georgeanne raised and funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of medical and material aid to anti-government organizations during El Salvador's civil war. In his last decade Milan lived with his wife in seclusion in Wolf Creek, Oregon, before moving to Mexico for his final adventures.

Subversives

Author : Seth Rosenfeld
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429969326
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Subversives written by Seth Rosenfeld and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories, poison-pen letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the FBI's covert operations—led by Reagan's friend J. Edgar Hoover—helped ignite an era of protest, undermine the Democrats, and benefit Reagan personally and politically. At the same time, he vividly evokes the life of Berkeley in the early sixties—and shows how the university community, a site of the forward-looking idealism of the period, became a battleground in an epic struggle between the government and free citizens. The FBI spent more than $1 million trying to block the release of the secret files on which Subversives is based, but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to release more than 250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what the government was up to during a turning point in our nation's history. Part history, part biography, and part police procedural, Subversives reads like a true-crime mystery as it provides a fresh look at the legacy of the sixties, sheds new light on one of America's most popular presidents, and tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and unchecked power.

That's It. A Final Visit With Charles Bukowski

Author : Gundolf S. Freyermuth
Publisher : Fuego
ISBN 13 : 3862870243
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book That's It. A Final Visit With Charles Bukowski written by Gundolf S. Freyermuth and published by Fuego. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'That's It' is an intimate and informative portrait of Charles Bukowski. Based on the very last interview he gave, the book combines reporting with literary criticism. It renders a final and lasting picture of Charles Bukowski and assesses his importance as a writer. A 'must read' for Bukowski fans.

Up Against the Wall

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785275259
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Wall written by Peter Laufer and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. Up Against the Wall provides the background to understanding how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.

Forbidden Creatures

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762799838
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Creatures written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Night Drive

Author : Garnet Rogers
Publisher : Tickleshore Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0995074208
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Night Drive written by Garnet Rogers and published by Tickleshore Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...every stupid, inexplicable and bizarre thing that could happen to a pair of young idiots who were naïve enough to think they could play folk music for a living back in the mid- 70’s and early 80’s. The bar fights and the bike gangs, The police chases and the arrests. And a thousand gigs in every corner of North America. It’s all here. At least most of it..."

Underground Voices

Author : Cetywa Powell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595380921
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Underground Voices written by Cetywa Powell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underground Voices is a collection of thirty-three short stories fueled by noir, grit, alcoholism, mental illnesses, psychiatric sessions, torments, journals, confessions, and purging.

Born to Bomb

Author : Jason Dax Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980775549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Born to Bomb written by Jason Dax Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder, bank robbery, and other real stories from the golden years of Sydney graffiti, 1984-1989. In the early eighties, New York City style graffiti exploded like a pandemic through out the western world. Thousands of young folks were copying dance moves and graffiti styles they had seen in movies, music video clips and even on bubble gum cards, which created a visual tidal wave around the world. This book is a rough guide to a few hundred of the thousands of young folk who painted in Sydney during this period."-- Back cover.

The Jive 95

Author : Hank Rosenfeld
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493070878
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Jive 95 written by Hank Rosenfeld and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercultural consciousness of the ‘60s and ‘70s to a new generation. A communal radio band of intrepid hellraisers, pranksters, and drug-enlightened geniuses defined this psychedelic era, from the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park, to the rebellion and bitter end of the late 1970s, which launched the Reagan Revolution. Founded in San Francisco by Tom Donahue, a 1996 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an entire generation of Americans discovered a new musical universe among dance clubs, light shows and street fests––the original pop-ups. Almost overnight, KSAN became an audio clubhouse, where anyone could belong with friends and the cool cats and hipsters they just met. Rock gods, political stars, and literary celebrities, including Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Sly Stone, and John Lennon were all interviewed by founder Tom Donahue and his cohorts, whose listeners “tuned in and turned on” to bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver, Country Joe and the Fish, Hot Tuna, The Beatles and Santana, among others. Folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld was there during those final years––writing, producing, and announcing. His warm, funny voice presents a behind-the-mic experience at KSAN, the beloved, “Jive 95,” whose delicious dose of enlightened sunshine and 33 rpm LP dreamscapes ignited a radio explosion from coast to coast. So, how did KSAN go from a liberating voice to a corporate cliché? It’s all here in Rosenfeld’s insightful, hilarious account, which includes countless exclusive interviews with iconic performers and never before available in print or audio form.

Hearts Redesigned

Author : Caraway Carter
Publisher : Never Too Late Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearts Redesigned written by Caraway Carter and published by Never Too Late Books. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hot-shot architect. A burly barista. A second chance they didn’t see coming. Thomas Drake has never been a relationship guy. And he’s sure not looking for his next hook-up when he stops by the Brass Lamp for coffee, and he can’t keep his eyes off the hot older guy pulling espresso behind the counter. But Brodie has secrets he’s not ready to share, and he doesn’t have time for a sexy young workaholic, no matter how much the air crackles between them when they get near each other. Before they can figure out how to break down the walls around their hearts, though, they’re going to have to deal with a vlogger with a grudge, secrets forced into the open, and a stalker ex. With their lives thrown into turmoil, Thomas and Brodie are going to have to decide if what they are working on is worth the fight in the end. Hearts Redesigned is a standalone novel with a happily-ever-after ending. It’s the second book in the Professions of Love series — stories that give non-traditional couples a second chance. Preorder Hearts Redesigned to discover the men of Professions of Love today!

No Animals Were Harmed

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762777184
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book No Animals Were Harmed written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way we humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at Sea World by a killer whale in February 2010 is the catalyst for this examination of the controversial role animals have played in the human arenas of entertainment and sports. From the Romans throwing Christians to lions to cock-fighting in present-day California, from abusive Mexican circuses to the thrills of a Hungarian counterpart, from dog training to shooting strays in the Baghdad streets, Laufer looks at the ways people have used animals for their pleasure. The reader travels with Laufer as he encounters fascinating people and places, and as he ponders the ethical questions that arise from his quest.

Janis

Author : Holly George-Warren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476793123
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Janis written by Holly George-Warren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down—but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away—even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplin’s family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.

Elusive State of Jefferson

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493004476
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Elusive State of Jefferson written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson. Yreka, California, home of the secession movement, was named the temporary state capital. Local proponents, Members of the State of Jefferson Citizens Committee, began to stop traffic along Highway 99 at armed roadblocks to pass out political broadsides – their Proclamation of Independence. And, in December of that year, Judge John Childs of Crescent City, California, was elected the first Governor of the State of Jefferson. The United States’ entry into World War II just days later interrupted this growing movement. News of the bombing of Pearl Harbor replaced the planned coverage of Child’s election and overshadowed Jeffersonians perceived marginalization with a national sense of unity. But today what often is referred to as the mythical State of Jefferson remains as both an emblem of the north counties’ frustrations and as a cultural signifier that differentiates the region from the rest of California and the nation. Through interviews with residents and travels through the region, Laufer reveals the story of what could have been and the identity of the region that remains even more than sixty years after the apex of the movement.

Dangerous World of Butterflies

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762799811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous World of Butterflies written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer’s adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, museum collections, and chaos theory. His ever-expanding journey of discovery throughout the Americas and beyond offers a rare look into a theater of intrigue, peopled with quirky and nefarious characters—all in pursuit of these delicate, beautiful creatures. Read this book, and your garden—and the world—will never quite look the same.

Dreaming in Turtle

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250128099
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming in Turtle written by Peter Laufer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration into the world of turtles across the globe; Laufer charts the lore, love, and peril to a beloved species. Dreaming in Turtle is a compelling story of a stalwart animal prized from prehistory through to today—an animal threatened by human greed, pragmatism, and rationalization. It stars turtles and shady and heroic human characters both, in settings ranging from luxury redoubts to degraded habitats, during a time when the confluence of easy global trade, limited supply, and inexhaustible demand has accelerated the stress on species. The growth of the middle class in high-population regions like China, where the turtle is particularly valued, feeds this perfect storm into which the turtle finds itself lashed. This is a tale not just of endangered turtles but also one of overall human failings, frailties, and vulnerabilities—all punctuated by optimistic hope for change fueled by dedicated turtle champions.

Firmin

Author : Sam Savage
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892635
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Firmin written by Sam Savage and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'... When it comes to openers, though, the best in my view has to be the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier: 'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.'" So begins the remarkable tale of Firmin the rat. Born in a bookstore in a blighted 1960's Boston neighborhood, Firmin miraculously learns how to read by digesting his nest of books. Alienated from his family and unable to communicate with the humans he loves, Firmin quickly realizes that a literate rat is a lonely rat. Following a harrowing misunderstanding with his hero, the bookseller, Firmin begins to risk the dangers of Scollay Square, finding solace in the Lovelies of the burlesque cinema. Finally adopted by a down-on-his-luck science fiction writer, the tide begins to turn, but soon they both face homelessness when the wrecking ball of urban renewal arrives. In a series of misadventures, Firmin is ultimately led deep into his own imaginative soul--a place where Ginger Rogers can hold him tight and tattered books, storied neighborhoods, and down-and-out rats can find people who adore them. A native of South Carolina, Sam Savage now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. This is his first novel.

Low Life - Irreverent Reflections from the Bottom of a Glass

Author : Jeffrey Bernard
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 0715653598
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Low Life - Irreverent Reflections from the Bottom of a Glass written by Jeffrey Bernard and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the Tony Hancock of journalism, for forty years Bernard wrote only about himself and the failures of his life – with women, drink, doctors, horses – which have become legendary. Low Life is an irresistible collection of the best of Bernard's celebrated autobiographical contributions to The Spectator, once described as 'a suicide note in weekly instalments'. Previously published in two volumes entitled Low Life: A Kind of Autobiography and Reach for the Ground, these books are now available in a single volume containing all his derisive reflections on life. Antiauthoritarian, grumpy, charming, politically incorrect, funny, drunk and always mischievous, Bernard could usually be found at the Coach and Horses pub on London’s Greek street, a lit cigarette in his mouth and a drink in hand. He was joined by famous friends including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Graham Green, Peter O’Toole, Ian Fleming and many others and their conversations – as well as with whomever was tending bar at the time – served as the basis for his writing. There were in fact times when he was too drunk to write, hence the famous "unwell" notice that went next to the large, hastily-sketched cartoon that filled its space in the magazine.