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1) Cronies, a Burlesque: Adventures With Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful
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A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways.
It all began at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner's for the Stanford writing class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies, embarking on a frolicking, rambunctious adventure that lasted over 40 years. Babbs calls the 70 stories of this book "burlesques" because, after 85 years of living, much of it in the wide friendly...
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Lt. Tom Huckelbee, leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage, and Lt. Mike Cochran, loquacious son of an Ohio gangster, make an unlikely pair training to be marine corps chopper pilots on their way to Vietnam. But they soon go through a strange transformation together-from a couple of know-nothing young men straight out of flight school into marine aviators caught in the middle of a disorienting war.
Tough and comical, quiet and boisterous,...
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Tsuami Press
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[2021]
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"...Come along for the ride on the famous bus trip to Manhattan. Join the Hells Angels at their partying best. Drop in for the early acid tests. Experience the Berkeley Vietnam anti-war rally. Relish the stories of Kesey's pot busts and "suicide." Climb aboard--"Board"--for six months on the lam in Mexico. Take the Further tours with the Grateful Dead. Make the ultimate move to Oregon, where Babbs and Kesey grew a magical friendship and collaboration...