
ABOUT THE BOOK
The 60's are back with a vengeance – —
1969 - 1970 is the climactic finale to a tumultuous decade stuck between the free love of Woodstock, and the national nightmare at Kent State. Senior Danny O'Shea, his two roommates, and their band of Dartmouth fraternity brothers confront a year of living dangerously when their draft numbers are drawn, and their road trip culture runs head-on into the specter of Vietnam.
Love, sex & beer, staples of those coming-of-age years, are joined by protests, body bags and fear. The universal - usually joyful - rites of college abruptly become a deeper, darker journey. The soundtrack shifts from Otis Redding's laid back Dock of the Bay, to Country Joe McDonald's seminal 60's protest song: "Well it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for..."
For those who drew a low draft number, they were fighting for their lives.
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Wonder what your draft lottery number would have been if you were 18 to 26 years of age in the U.S. on December 1st, 1969?