Vidda Crochetta
Boomers' War
Published by iUniverse
January 2007
ISBN: 13: 978-0-595-37004-7
In Boomers’ War, a colorful cast of characters takes you from the summer of 1967 to the summer of 1969 in a nonstop timeline of a revolution in the making. Rebellions against the prohibitions of sex and drugs swirl in a melting pot of student unrest, black power, bra burning, gay rights, free love, long hair, and bellbottoms, all of which bubble over into a strange and wondrous brew by the end of the decade. The sixties were about liberation and coming-of-age. The shedding of inhibitions toward lawful, peaceful protest propelled the frontlines of the baby boomers forward with spasms of social change—by reasoning where possible—kicking and screaming when necessary. Filled with the authentic sights and sounds of the times of nearly forty years ago, Boomers’ War showcases the impact that unrestrained enthusiasm for peace and love had on a nation locked in war at home and abroad. When David Burton runs away from home with his high school buddy in the summer of 1967, the seventeen-year-old never anticipates he is about to enter a social maelstrom that will rock the very foundation of his generation. In an intolerant time and place, the farm-raised teen lives big city life to its fullest, from a Digger’s pad in Los Angeles to the uninhibited bars of Greenwich Village. Author Vidda Crochetta has chronicled the end of the sixties from the perspective of one teen’s coming-of-age amid America’s greatest period of social change. No other decade carried the mantle of revolution on its shoulders the way the 1960s did. The baby boomers lived an avant-garde way of life that younger generations today can only imagine. Boomers’ War is about young people who smoked pot, made love not war, did not trust anyone over thirty, and changed the world.