{"product_id":"1974-a-personal-history-paperback-1","title":"1974: A Personal History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancine Prose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism--uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony--give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s--the decade, as she memorably puts it, when American youth realized that the changes that seemed possible in the '60s weren't going to happen. A fascinating and ultimately wrenching book.\"--Daniel Mendelsohn, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first literary memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers. The narrative is framed around the nights she spent with Russo driving manically around 1970s San Francisco, listening to his stories--and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to them mirrors the events and preoccupations of that historical moment in the Watergate era: the Vietnam war, drugs, women's liberation, the Patty Hearst kidnapping. At once heartfelt and ironic, funny and sad, personal and political, \u003ci\u003e1974\u003c\/i\u003e provides an insightful look at how Francine Prose became a writer and artist during a time when the country, too, was shaping its identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a young writer's coming-of-age story collides with one of the biggest political scandals in American history?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Whistleblower Story: \u003c\/b\u003e Go behind the headlines for an intimate, firsthand account of Anthony Russo, the complex and charismatic man who helped Daniel Ellsberg leak the Pentagon Papers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePolitical Coming-of-Age: \u003c\/b\u003e Witness how a young Francine Prose finds her voice as a writer against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War, radical activism, and women's liberation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCounterculture History: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience the charged atmosphere of a nation grappling with its identity, from the Patty Hearst kidnapping to the lingering idealism of the 1960s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Unforgettable Voice: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover the incisive wit, sharp intelligence, and unflinching honesty that have made Francine Prose one of her generation's most acclaimed literary figures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 7.91 x 11.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53575263420723,"sku":"9780063314108","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/1974-a-personal-history-paperback-1","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}