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Living Northern California

1975-1995

                                 

                     

A restless Ohio academic moves to Northern California for two remarkable decades, finding success and heartbreak from Big Sur to Mendocino. Time well spent along the way with pathfinders who would transform American culture through politics, philosophy, education and the arts, including Gregory Bateson, Jerry Brown, Daniel Ellsberg, Le Ly Hayslip, Kay Boyle, Sally Gearhart, Kenneth Burke, Heinz von Foerster, Terence Hallinan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brian Willson and Denis Johnson, as well as a visionary crew of techno wizards gathered at Menlo Park’s iconic Dutch Goose pub where they hatch the personal computer revolution.

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In vivid and fast-paced prose, Wilder brings

to life this legendary period.
Governor Jerry Brown

Writes with verve and grace.

Michael Krasny, Broadcaster, Author,

Professor

Contains multitudes.
Michael Blecker, Swords to Plowshares

Traveled in all the intertwining circles

that mattered.
Mercilee Jenkins, Playwright, Professor

Carol Wilder is a hell of an original.

Take this rollicking ride up from the sidewalk

through the front door.
William Talen -  “Rev. Billy”

The stories in this book warm my hear

remembering that there is so much good

that confronted so much evil.
Keith Mather - “The Presidio 27”

Charged with Mutiny, 1968

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