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- catalog abstract "Few people saw as much or knew as many of the primary figures of the '60s and '70s as David Obst. A journalist in the maelstrom of the anti-war movement, he helped break Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer Prize-winning My Lai Massacre story. A behind-the-scenes operator, he baby-sat the Pentagon Papers for Daniel Ellsberg. And as the hottest literary agent of the period, Obst quickly sewed up deals with the Watergate intelligentsia, including Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and John Dean. Given his insider status, Obst offers some intriguing speculation on the identity of Deep Throat. Obst's knack for being at the center of every interesting story makes Too Good to be Forgotten a rare, you-are-there joy ride across the political and cultural frontier of that era. Surviving a youth of nuclear drop drills, Sputnik, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Obst went on to study Chinese in Taipei. There, while working as an impromptu translator for GI's trying to meet women in a local bar, he heard firsthand what was happening in the Vietnam War. Returning to America, he immersed himself in the anti-war movement and the counter-cultural zeitgeist of the '60s. Through Obst's eyes, we see the casual mix of idealism and excitement of the times: the 1968 Democratic Convention, where he barely escapes the beatings of Chicago police in Lincoln Park; the Black Panther rally, where he receives a "Honkies for Huey" button; and the 1972 Republican Convention where Abbie Hoffman slips him an illegal substance that hits at the very moment Richard Nixon steps to the podium to accept the nomination. A definitive look at the baby boomer's coming of age, Too Good to be Forgotten puts you right in the thick of some of the defining moments of the time the kids tried to take the country away from the grown-ups. David Obst provides us with the memoir of a generation.".
- catalog contributor b10973989.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1961-1963.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1963-1969.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1969-1974.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1960-1980.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Cambridge -- Youth -- Taiwan -- Chicago -- Berkeley -- My Lai -- Pentagon papers -- Miami Beach -- Watergate -- Publishing -- Acknowledgments -- Index.".
- catalog description "Few people saw as much or knew as many of the primary figures of the '60s and '70s as David Obst. A journalist in the maelstrom of the anti-war movement, he helped break Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer Prize-winning My Lai Massacre story. A behind-the-scenes operator, he baby-sat the Pentagon Papers for Daniel Ellsberg. And as the hottest literary agent of the period, Obst quickly sewed up deals with the Watergate intelligentsia, including Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and John Dean. Given his insider status, Obst offers some intriguing speculation on the identity of Deep Throat. Obst's knack for being at the center of every interesting story makes Too Good to be Forgotten a rare, you-are-there joy ride across the political and cultural frontier of that era. Surviving a youth of nuclear drop drills, Sputnik, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Obst went on to study Chinese in Taipei. There, while working as an impromptu translator for GI's trying to meet women in a local bar, he heard firsthand what was happening in the Vietnam War. Returning to America, he immersed himself in the anti-war movement and the counter-cultural zeitgeist of the '60s. Through Obst's eyes, we see the casual mix of idealism and excitement of the times: the 1968 Democratic Convention, where he barely escapes the beatings of Chicago police in Lincoln Park; the Black Panther rally, where he receives a "Honkies for Huey" button; and the 1972 Republican Convention where Abbie Hoffman slips him an illegal substance that hits at the very moment Richard Nixon steps to the podium to accept the nomination. A definitive look at the baby boomer's coming of age, Too Good to be Forgotten puts you right in the thick of some of the defining moments of the time the kids tried to take the country away from the grown-ups. David Obst provides us with the memoir of a generation.".
- catalog extent "v, 282 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Too good to be forgotten.".
- catalog identifier "0471295388 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Too good to be forgotten.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : J. Wiley & Sons,".
- catalog relation "Too good to be forgotten.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1961-1963.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1963-1969.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1969-1974.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1960-1980.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.92 21".
- catalog subject "E839.5 .O28 1998".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Obst, David.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975.".
- catalog subject "Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Cambridge -- Youth -- Taiwan -- Chicago -- Berkeley -- My Lai -- Pentagon papers -- Miami Beach -- Watergate -- Publishing -- Acknowledgments -- Index.".
- catalog title "Too good to be forgotten : changing America in the '60s and '70s / David Obst.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".