|
|
|
The last best hope
by Peter Tauber
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1977)
ISBN: 0151483779
EAN: 9780151483778
Hardcover: 628 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 0709150239
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Like new condition. Case lid is broken. May have a sticker on the artwork or disk with the previous owners name or initials but does not affect use.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Realistic view for those of us that weren't there . . .
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-04-02
I first read this book my freshman year of high school for honors History class. I must say, at the age of 14 I found the book overwhelming. Tauber gives what I now know are very accurate depictions of the social environment of the 60's/70's. The characters come to life in such a way that one can identify with them and understand the emotions of the time. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the social atmosphere of the 60s/70s. For anyone who wasn't grown or even born at this time, reading this book will give you such a great insight into what was going on and why it was such a turbulent time in our history.
|
|
American Beauty
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-03-30
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
At the time I first read this book I was living in Africa, fairly disinteresteed in the boomer generation, and this was the book that turned it around. In many ways it was my first introduction to the decade, the way it was experienced here in the US, and also to the modern American psyche. Although it is a brilliant comment on the politics and mores of the time, the driving force throughout is the accurate, human, living characters that inhabit and inspire the novel. On top of the sometimes bleak, sometimes ecstatic narative thread, is the most poignant, wonderful love afair. Honest, not a word of schmaltz. I am perhaps biased by over 10 yrs of fond absence from this fantastic book, and I must confess that I'm more interested in finding a back copy than giving a constructive, objective review.
|
|
Depicts the late '60's better than anything else I've read.
Rating  (4)
Date: 1999-10-18
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've read this book 3 times, the first time being about 20 years ago. The characters are accurate representations of the various factions that dominated the era. For someone who was just old enough to (16-17) to witness the period, without having as much at stake as those slightly older, this book reveals how much was sacrificed by the Vietnam generation. I keep hoping that someday Tauber will write a sequel which will let us know what happened to Willie, Joanna and the rest after 1970.
|
|
A great review of growing up in the 60's and 70's.
Rating (4)
Date: 1999-06-27
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
First of all I must point out that I read this book more than 15 years ago. It was a book that was passed around to so many people that the last time I saw my copy it had rubber bands holding it together. More important was the fact that people of all ages and backgrounds read it and took their own special meaning from the lives portrayed. This is probably the single best fictional historic account of a person coming of age in the 60's and 70's ever found. The characters were all reasoned and presented the joys and frustrations of an era that saw some of the best and worst times of the modern era. If anyone wants to understand where baby-boomers came from, and how they lost their souls, this is the book.
|
|
|
|
|