The hue and cry at our house
Subtitle: a year remembered
By: Benjamin Taylor
Publisher: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780143131649
Subjects: Nineteen sixty-four, A.D.; Nineteen sixty-three, A.D.; American Authors; Biography
Description: "After John F. Kennedy's speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylor's teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president's assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didn't, his memories of summer camp and family trips, he reflects upon the outsized impact our larger American story had on his own."--Cover flap.
Table of contents: title: No faint hearts; title: A clean burrow; title: The real man, the imagination; title: Peru; title: Forebears; title: Natural shocks; title: Lake effect; title: No Jews, no commies, no fags neither; title: A statute of limitations.