Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
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- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2005
Summary
From the narcotic allure of the bebop and Beat generations to the psychedelic 1960s, Vietnam, the cocaine-fueled disco era, the crack epidemic, and the ecstasy-induced rave culture, illegal drugs have profoundly shaped America‘s cultural landscape. In "Can’t Find My Way Home, " journalist and filmmaker Martin Torgoff chronicles what a long strange trip it‘s been as the American Century became the Great Stoned Age.
Weaving together first-person accounts and historical…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743230117 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743230116 |
| Author: | Martin Torgoff |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 608g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 158mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
“An exuberant chronicle of ecstatic inebriation, delusional utopianism, wretched excess and chastened nostalgia for lost highs.” – The New York Times Book Review “Sprawling, high-spirited….[Torgoff’s] ambitious chronicle packs considerable punch as an antidote to official policies based on ‘myths, fears, exaggerations, and lies.’” – Martin A. Lee, Los Angeles Times “As pleasantly and richly intoxicating as a double hit of Humboldt County, California’s finest….Torgoff ranges widely in documenting the profound influence of drugs on postwar America.” – Nick Gillespie, The Washington Post Book World
Martin Torgoff
Martin Torgoff has been a contributing editor at “Interview” and a producer for CNN “World Beat.” He is a documentary filmmaker and the author of several books, including the bestselling “Elvis: We Love You Tender” and “American Fool: The Roots and Improbable Rise of John Cougar Mellencamp, ” which won an ASCAP Deems Taylor award. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
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