Gettin' Home: An Odyssey Through The '60s

CAN YOU GET HOME AGAIN? In the epic poem the Odyssey by the ancient Greek poet Homer, Odysseus (aka Ulysses) heads home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. His journey takes ten years, through trials and tribulations. In 1961, Cornell student Steve Nelson leaves Ithaca to live among descendants of the Incas in the Peruvian Andes. They have survived for centuries as feudal serfs under harsh masters. Now they have a plan to win their freedom, but can they overcome the powerful interests opposing them? Meanwhile, the superpowers U.S. and U.S.S.R. are confronting each other in Berlin, in what could lead to nuclear war. Far from western civilization, Steve wonders whether he can ever get home again. He finds himself on a ten-year odyssey of trials and tribulations, triumph and loss, sex and drugs, love and murder, joy and sorrow, during the turbulent times of the '60s. In this epic memoir Steve recounts his journey from the rugged Andes to The Velvet Underground... from Harvard Square to Surf City... from a Harvard Law student to a draft resister... from visions of social justice to the sounds of the '60s, as manager of the legendary rock and blues club The Boston Tea Party. Along the way he encounters Martin Luther King, B.B. King, Ted Kennedy, Eric Clapton, civil rights martyr Mickey Schwerner, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Hillary Rodham, Lou Reed and other rockstars like Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Sandy Denny, Van Morrison and Peter Wolf. Like a chameleon, his appearance changes as he moves from one social setting to another, until finally he must ask himself: who was I, who am I, who will I be? Only then can he get home.

• | Author: Steve Nelson
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 372 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1717358152
• | ISBN-13: 9781717358158