In the Black, 1965-1969: A Satire of the Sixties

If ever a period in American history deserved the Catch-22 treatment, it is the decade you either love to hate or hate to love.“In the Black is Ayn Rand on drugs.” ~John Galt“If you can remember anything about the Sixties, you weren't really there.” ~Paul Kantner, Jefferson AirplaneY.T., Jr. can't wait to leave for college at the University of California, Berkeley to escape not only the work but especially all the phlegm-brained idiots at his father's aerospace company.Leaving behind a pregnant auburn-haired cheerleader, a sensuous red-headed siren plotting to usurp his familial ties, and his two best friends — one who ends up in Vietnam and the other in the Weather Underground — his "trip" on the wild side of the Generation Gap takes him from the psychedelic scene of Haight-Ashbury to the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted list.Meanwhile, his father is consumed by the task of managing his unmanageable corporate team in the quest to help fulfill a President's challenge to "land a man on the moon."With cameos by Bill Clinton, Neil Armstrong, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Charles Manson.“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.” ~Ken Kesey Read more