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What a Glorious Time It Was!
- Being Young in the Exuberant Seventies
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Dotson Rader arrived in New York in 1963, a young stranger to the city, knowing no one, owning nothing - until a few lucky events opened up an extraordinary new world for him. Through his words, we enter this ardent, unforgettable world of writers, artists, radicals, and sexual rebels in a time of unprecedented cultural freedom and defiance. Against the backdrop of the women's rights, gay liberation, civil rights, and anti-war movements, a singular new period of experimentation and liberation is born. Here, Dotson Rader chronicles what it was like to be young in America in the extraordinary time he calls, “the glory days".
At the center of What a Glorious Time It Was! is the close friendship between Rader and celebrated American novelist Truman Capote, whose personal struggles embodied the conflict of this era: rebellion against society, body, and mind, and the cost at which it came.
Brazen, humorous, and heartbreaking, What a Glorious Time It Was! appeals to memoir listeners looking to dive into remarkable lives unlike their own.
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- Phalucha
- 2021-08-29
Truman Capote and 1970s New York
Beautifully written and a time capsule to the 1970s in NY City. Very enjoyable personal history by Rader but the heroes of this story are Truman Capote and Manhattan. A great diversion for all who love the city.
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