James A. Mitchell

The Walrus and the Elephants

John Lennon's Years of Revolution

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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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-60980-576-0
EAN: 9781609805760
Produktnummer: 16115064
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 288 S.

Über den Autor

JAMES A. MITCHELL is the author of But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War, the story of an orphanage in Sri Lanka's war-torn northeast; the rock biography It Was All Right: Mitch Ryder's Life in Music; and the tale of a rural newspaper, Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town). A reporter and editor for more than thirty years in New York, Michigan, and as a U.S. Army soldier-journalist, Mitchell has written on a wide range of subjects for newspapers and magazines including Entertainment Weekly, The Humanist, Video Business, and Starlog. In South Asia, Mitchell produced video features for CNN's iReports. He lives in Southeast Michigan and works for a non-profit organization that supports the Grace Care Center for Children in Sri Lanka. Mitchell makes frequent appearances before community and civic groups regarding Sri Lanka, and has appeared on radio and TV shows to discuss Detroit rock and roll.