I ran across Jonathan Taplin’s iBook OUTLAW BLUES as I was completing AMERICAN STORY. I found it immediately engaging because — in a way similar to AMERICAN STORY — it intermixed social history with the effects of the arts, although URBAN OUTLAWS often went to different areas with different focus, in part because of Jonathan’s involvement with The Band. I shared a sense of camaraderie though because I identified with that process, of course, and appreciated the sharing of his experience,”“My sentimental idealism became as unfashionable as bell-bottom pants. I might have [foreseen that] the air of passionless detachment that the age of irony (Seinfeld, Letterman, SNL) was about to bring upon us would render most of my generation, and the one to follow, politically impotent…Most of us retreated into work, or eventually family.” I recommend his book/
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