Radical passions
Subtitle: a memoir of revolutions and healing
By: Kendall Hale
Publisher: IUniverse Inc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780595483877; 9780595719419
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Radicals; Biography; Feminists
Description: "Brimming with honesty, humor, and zeal, Kendall Hale's memoir shares her remarkable journey from youthful adolescence to thoughtful maturity in Radical Passions. Hale explores her early college years protesting the Vietnam War, her young adulthood struggles in Boston with a feminist band, the new communist and labor movements, and her transition to marriage and family. She takes us on her search for the socialist dream in Castro's Cuba, Mao's China, and Nicaragua during the Contra War, to her life as a wife, mother, and veteran of a fractured marriage. Therapy, Buddhism, and spiritual travels in India, South America, and the Pacific lead Hale to Asheville, North Carolina, a community replete with rednecks, polygamists, voracious developers, environmentalists, and New Age dreamers. Transitioning the second half of life, Hale faces the challenges of aging and its potential flowering of wisdom and integration. A story for all who seek deeper meaning in their lives, Radical Passions is the inspiring tale of an ordinary woman's extraordinary life" -- www.radicalpassions.com
Table of contents: title: On the barricades in Madison --; title: We need a union here --; title: Yardbird: a life in the shipyard --; title: New Harmony Sisterhood Band --; title: Looking for Mao --; title: Getting normal --; title: Mama Clara's garden --; title: Demons and the golden rainbow --; title: Legal and liberal --; title: Teryn and the blue fairy --; title: Sure stars shining --; title: New age in the Blue Ridge vortex --; title: Turning fifty in Peru --; title: Globalized mystery --; title: Aging with the Smokies --; title: Morning after the attack on Baghdad --; title: Columbus reunion --; title: Karmic edge in the Chocolate River.