BACK OF THE BOOK BLURB
STORY
Welcome to Rutgers University, 1970. This New Jersey college campus, like others across the country, is a microcosm of the turbulent times that are transforming America forever. This book centers on a group of students who must confront their personal, academic, and social challenges as the world around them takes its first steps toward the 21st century. Through the eyes of these college students, we see the political and social upheaval that defined this decade: the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, and the Sexual Revolution. It was an era of peace, love, and war, and all three came together in universities like Rutgers.
THE NOVEL
Danny Watkins is an observer on the frontlines of the student protest on the Rutgers campus in 1970. He is a Dorm advisor for college freshmen and wants to be a journalist for the Rutgers Targum, the College Newspaper. His biggest obstacle is his mercurial editor, Jim Morris. Who belittles Danny’s talent and ability as a journalist? He constantly gives Danny assignments that do not reflect his ability.
After a news story goes disastrously wrong, Danny is fired from the paper, loses his scholarship, and might be forced to leave school. Danny must risk everything to recruit Abbie Hoffman, a controversial speaker to the college campus. In order to save his career and not drop out of school and be get drafted to serve in the unpopular Vietnam war.
The story features a diverse cast of characters including a beautiful young woman and early feminist, a young African American student searching for his identity, and a woman who discovers that she is gay It deals with the origins of movements such as Feminism, Gay Liberation that began on many of these same campus.