| The Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon's Years of Revolution Contributor(s): Mitchell, James A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609805763 ISBN-13: 9781609805760 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2013017514 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement as someone who was capable of reinvigorating it. The government was acutely aware of Lennon's power as well, seeing him as a viable threat to Nixon's reelection hopes, initiating extradition proceedings against him. Lennon's second solo album, Imagine, appeared in 1971, followed the following year by Sometime in New York City. Meanwhile, John and Yoko are searching for her daughter, a primary reason they came to America in the first place. And John is struggling to embrace feminism. The Walrus and the Elephants tells a double-barreled story of music and politics, how the personal is political and the political is personal, of upheavals in one life amid the larger cultural upheavals of an era. |
