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1969 & Then Some: On Morality, Vietnam, Romance & 2 Wheels for Life by Robert Wintner
Narrator: Robert Wintner
Category: Memoir, eBook, Audiobook
Praise "This book has a pulse. You can feel the tension in the streets, the rumble of the motorcycles, and the restless energy of people who refused to accept the world as it was. The writing made me want to get up and do something that matters. It’s the kind of book that stirs both the mind and the heart." - Amazon Customer, 5 star review |
ABOUT THE BOOK
1969 was pivotal for baby boomers, young, innocent and facing a needless war. On a grand tour, youth united for peace, resisting war, living the parables of high time. Some will remember. Some can’t. All bore witness to a time like none before or ever since, when a few seasons defined the difference between right and wrong.
The profit motive gave way to greed. Truth twisted to propaganda. National interest got bent for defense contractors. Democracy buckled on a war of attrition, and a cloud of smoke got toxic: napalm. Other clouds formed phantoms of complacency, security and atrophy. Sustained on smoke and stoned to the gills, we resisted, as no generation has done.
Youth is time for development within. Boomers formed lasting values that linger in truth and giving, peace and sharing. 1969 was a benchmark for the future, on a worldview and lyrics echoing down the decades.
1969 was pivotal for baby boomers, young, innocent and facing a needless war. On a grand tour, youth united for peace, resisting war, living the parables of high time. Some will remember. Some can’t. All bore witness to a time like none before or ever since, when a few seasons defined the difference between right and wrong.
The profit motive gave way to greed. Truth twisted to propaganda. National interest got bent for defense contractors. Democracy buckled on a war of attrition, and a cloud of smoke got toxic: napalm. Other clouds formed phantoms of complacency, security and atrophy. Sustained on smoke and stoned to the gills, we resisted, as no generation has done.
Youth is time for development within. Boomers formed lasting values that linger in truth and giving, peace and sharing. 1969 was a benchmark for the future, on a worldview and lyrics echoing down the decades.
Robert Wintner
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Wintner's characters seek reason in nature. In a Sweet Magnolia Time was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Whirlaway and The Modern Outlaws were optioned for movie production in Los Angeles. Whirlaway, a hot-book listing at the Maui County Library, is iconic among Maui charter crews. A Road Saga in two books includes Touch of the Unknown Rider, twenty years up the road from The Modern Outlaws.
Robert Wintner is a reef conservation activist and Executive Producer of The Dark Hobby, an award-winning movie exposing the aquarium trade.
Reef photography with political narrative titles include 1) Some Fishes I Have Known, 2) Every Fish Tells a Story, 3) Neptune Speaks (with movie on CD), 4) Reef Libre, An In-Depth Look at Cuban Exceptionalism & the Last, Best Reefs in the World (with movie on CD) and 5) Dragon Walk (with movie on CD). No need to schlep camera & dive gear around the world; the Snorkel Bob expeditions did it for you.
Website: https://robertwintner.com/
Instagram: @robertwintner
Purchase the book here:
https://a.co/d/3UM19YN
Robert Wintner's characters seek reason in nature. In a Sweet Magnolia Time was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Whirlaway and The Modern Outlaws were optioned for movie production in Los Angeles. Whirlaway, a hot-book listing at the Maui County Library, is iconic among Maui charter crews. A Road Saga in two books includes Touch of the Unknown Rider, twenty years up the road from The Modern Outlaws.
Robert Wintner is a reef conservation activist and Executive Producer of The Dark Hobby, an award-winning movie exposing the aquarium trade.
Reef photography with political narrative titles include 1) Some Fishes I Have Known, 2) Every Fish Tells a Story, 3) Neptune Speaks (with movie on CD), 4) Reef Libre, An In-Depth Look at Cuban Exceptionalism & the Last, Best Reefs in the World (with movie on CD) and 5) Dragon Walk (with movie on CD). No need to schlep camera & dive gear around the world; the Snorkel Bob expeditions did it for you.
Website: https://robertwintner.com/
Instagram: @robertwintner
Purchase the book here:
https://a.co/d/3UM19YN
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