The Walrus and the Elephants

By: James A. Mitchell

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Synopsis: Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement as someone who was capable of reinvigorating it. The government was acutely aware of Lennon's power as well, seeing him as a viable threat to Nixon's reelection hopes, initiating extradition proceedings against him. Lennon's second solo album, Imagine, appeared in 1971, followed the following year by Sometime in New York City. Meanwhile, John and Yoko are searching for her daughter, a primary reason they came to America in the first place. And John is struggling to embrace feminism. The Walrus and the Elephants tells a double-barreled story of music and politics, how the personal is political and the political is personal, of upheavals in one life amid the larger cultural upheavals of an era. From the Hardcover edition.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781609804688
Related ISBNs:: 9781609804671
Publisher:: Seven Stories Press
Date of Addition:: 08/28/15
Copyrighted By:: James A. Mitchell
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Music, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: N/A
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.