Returning to New York, she worked as a free-lance journalist for magazines ranging from Harpers, Esquire and the New York Times to Rolling Stone. Her first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national correspondent, covering everything from the election campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon to the Woodstock Festival and the student strike at Columbia. She went to Berkeley in the Sixties, where the rite of passage was to "get stoned, get laid and get arrested."Īfter Berkeley she headed for New York to attend the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Sara was born in 1943 and grew up in California. Davidson's honest and detailed chronicle reveals the hopes, confusion, and disillusionment of a generation whose rites of passage defined one of the most contentious decades of this century. Figures such as Timothy Leary, Mario Savio, Tom Hayden, and Joan Baez are here, as are the many young people who sought alternatives to "the establishment" through whatever means seemed worth radical politics, meditation, drugs, group sex, or dropping out. The private lives that Davidson reconstructs are set against the public background of the time. Sara, a journalist, travels the country reporting on the stories of the sixties. Susie navigates through the Free Speech Movement and the early women's movement in Berkeley, and Tasha enters the trendy New York art and society scene. Sara Davidson follows the three―Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself―from their first meeting in 1962, through the events that "radicalized" them in unexpected ways in the decade after the years in Berkeley. This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties.
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