No Direction Home

No Direction Home
Author: Natasha Zaretsky
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2010-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807867802

Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic recession, Zaretsky explains. By exploring such themes as the controversy surrounding prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74, and debates about cultural narcissism, Zaretsky reveals that the 1970s marked a significant turning point in the history of American nationalism. After Vietnam, a wounded national identity--rooted in a collective sense of injury and fueled by images of family peril--exploded to the surface and helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. With an innovative analysis that integrates cultural, intellectual, and political history, No Direction Home explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.

No Direction Home

No Direction Home
Author: Marisa Silver
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393058239

"Blindness Will be Like This." So says ten-year-old Will Burton, trying to reimagine his life in the wake of his father's abrupt disappearance, as his family picks up stakes and moves to California.

No Direction Home

No Direction Home
Author: Robert Shelton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781617130120

A re-release of an unauthorized 1986 classic is based on the author's access to the iconic musical artist's family, friends and classmates, in a 70th birthday tribute that restores significant parts of the author's original manuscript, updates a selective discography and incorporates new photographs.

With No Direction Home

With No Direction Home
Author: Marni Finkelstein
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

An anthropologist based in New York City, Finkelstein did two summers of field work among street kids in the East Village, and presents her findings qualitatively, much of it in the voices of the youths themselves. She focuses on what leads kids to the streets and what they experience there. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

No Direction Home

No Direction Home
Author: Greg Cayea
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997092103

We begin on the first day of sixth grade in the upper-class community of Roslyn. I was the biggest loser in school and struggled to stay afloat. Then one day everything changed. It was in the eighth grade when I went from being the biggest embarrassment on Long Island to the most popular kid in school. But by that time it was already too late. So began a dark trail of revenge. It was May 4th of 1999 and I was fourteen-years-old. After being shipped across many state lines, touring America's finest juvenile institutions, I find myself at the infamous and notorious Hidden Lake Academy, an academy tucked quietly in the darkness of the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. But before being shut down in June of 2011 for 'the tragic maltreatment of troubled youth', Hidden Lake Academy was still a thriving success with seemingly no way out. But I had to escape the danger, I had to unshackle my feet, and thus my journey to freedom began... But after a major catastrophe, I end up in New England, alone, on the run, homeless, sleeping in abandoned attics filled with counterfeit money, prostitutes and danger. I had nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep, and no money to eat. I was sixteen-years-old, it was a month before 9/11 and it was the greatest time of my life. Welcome to The Drifter Chronicles, Volume One.

Down the Highway

Down the Highway
Author: Howard Sounes
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802195458

The acclaimed biography—now updated and revised. “Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan’s] life, but never has it been done so well, so captivatingly” (The Boston Globe). Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan. Now this edition continues to document the iconic songwriter’s life through new interviews and reporting, covering the release of Dylan’s first #1 album since the seventies, recognition from the Pulitzer Prize jury for his influence on popular culture, and the publication of his bestselling memoir, giving full appreciation to his artistic achievements and profound significance. Candid and refreshing, Down the Highway is a sincere tribute to Dylan’s seminal place in postwar American cultural history, and remains an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan’s music over the years. “Irresistible . . . Finally puts Dylan the human being in the rocket’s red glare.” —Detroit Free Press

The Dylanologists

The Dylanologists
Author: David Kinney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451626932

An analysis of Bob Dylan fandom that shares insights into the music artist's influential role in American culture, contrasting the activities of particularly devout fans against Dylan's intensely private nature.

Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited

Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited
Author: Clinton Heylin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2003-04-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 006052569X

In 1991 Clinton Heylin published what was considered the most definitive biography of Bob Dylan available. In 2001 he completely revised and reworked this hugely acclaimed book, adding new sections, substantially reworking text, and bringing the story up-to-date with Dylan's explosive career in 2000. Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited follows the story of Dylan from his humble beginnings in Minnesota to his arrival in New York in 1961, his subsequent rise in the folk pantheon of Greenwich Village in the early '60s, and his cataclysmic folk-rock metamorphosis at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. In the succeeding eighteen months, Dylan released Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and embarked on the legendary 1966 World Tour that culminated with an unforgettable concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Heylin details it all, along with the true story of Dylan's motorcycle accident, his remarkable reemergence in the mid-'70s, the only exacting account of his controversial conversion to born-again Christianity, the Neverending Tour, and yet another incredible Dylan resurgence with his 1997 Grammy Album of the Year Award-winning Time Out of Mind. Deemed by The New Yorker as "the most readable and reliable" of all Dylan biographies, this book will give fans what they have always wanted -- a chance to get to know the man behind the shades.

No Direction Home

No Direction Home
Author: Mike Sheridan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Epidemics
ISBN: 9781547024384

Ordinary People Surviving Extraordinary TimesA college student in Knoxville. An Irish couple on their dream vacation in Orlando. A bank robber in an Atlanta prison...what do they all have in common?They are survivors of vPx073, the most deadly virus ever to be unleashed on the planet. One that has brought civilization to a standstill.Haunted by the tragic death of his Gulf War veteran father, Cody Parsons is a struggling student at UTK when the pandemic hits Knoxville. Soon the sharpshooting skills his father taught him as a fourteen-year-old are put to good use --- especially when an ex-US army combat engineer takes him under his wing.As food and water runs out, and roving gangs take over the cities, the paths of some very determined survivors are destined to meet...with surprising consequences.With strong, original characters that jump off the page, this is a fast-paced story that fans of post-apocalyptic survival fiction will appreciate.