Publisher's Synopsis
WE WERE SO MUCH OLDER THEN is an eclectic mix of current events and personal reminiscence gleaned from the years between 1963 and 1986. It deals with the Cultural Revolution from the perspective of someone who "was in-the-trenches". The writing style might not be what you are used to; it might appear pretentious; it employs a lot of foreign words, like dénouement and caveat emptor. WE WERE SO MUCH OLDER THEN is not an uplifting story of overcoming adversity and achieving one's objective - in fact, it's just the opposite - but it is instructive, and it even has a moral. It is appallingly realistic and brutally George (Frank being unavailable). It will make you stop and wonder. Psychology professors should find it interesting, and having read it, would make it required reading for all their students. WE WERE SO MUCH OLDER THEN discusses the Berkley Free-Speech Movement, Vietnam, the SLA, Nixon and Watergate, and what it's like to be stuck in a job you hate. To lighten the load, a few concerts and road-trips, and other trips, are thrown-in. An alternate title to WE WERE SO MUCH OLDER THEN would be: GROWING-UP IN THE AGE OF NIXON; but I rejected it because I didn't want my book to be placed next to a book about Nixon by mistake.
