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Between Panic and Desire
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Acknowledgments

Prologue: Between Panic and Desire

Part One. Panic

1. Introduction: Hello, My Name Is _______

2. Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers

3. Double Vision

4. Son of Richard M. Nixon

5. Three Bad Trips, 1968-77

6. Questions and Activities before Continuing

Part Two. Paranoia

7. Introduction: Imagine That

8. Baseball, Hot Dogs, Mescaline, and Chevrolet

9. Number Nine

10. 1984

11. Questions and Activities before Continuing

Part Three. Desire

12. Introduction: Why Oprah Doesn't Call

13. Son of George McManus

14. Three Milestones

15. Leonard Koan

16. Son of a Bush

17. Three Days in September

18. What You Want, What You Get, What You Need: A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem

19. "Curtis Knows Best": Towering, Permanent, Perilous, and Soon to be Televised on a Widescreen Near You

20. The Final Chapter

Index

About the Author

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A multigenre postmodern memoir of growing up in search of an American father

About the Author

Dinty W. Moore is a professor of English at Ohio University and the author of several books, including Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, and The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still.

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"Hear that? That is the sweet sonic boom of the Baby Boom barrier being broken by this elegant flight of essays launched from the steely hand of Captain Dinty W. Moore in his remarkable memoir "Between Panic and Desire". Impossible, they said, to reveal this precisely that sense of time, place, and even space. Listen: Read, read, read. Words away! That's it. Exactly. Like that."---Michael Martone, author of "Michael Martone: Fictions" "Dinty W. Moore's prose is crisp and clean, his insights sparkle with biting clarity and magnetic charm. This is an unusual, joyful and compelling memoir."---Lee Gutkind, author of "Almost Human: Making Robots Think" and editor of "Creative Nonfiction" "This is a refreshing and invigorating book, taking the predictable memoir form in new directions---playfully, sincerely, and intelligently. This is a terrific book."---Bret Lott, author of "Jewel"

"Hear that? That is the sweet sonic boom of the Baby Boom barrier being broken by this elegant flight of essays launched from the steely hand of Captain Dinty W. Moore in his remarkable memoir "Between Panic and Desire". Impossible, they said, to reveal this precisely that sense of time, place, and even space. Listen: Read, read, read. Words away! That's it. Exactly. Like that."---Michael Martone, author of "Michael Martone: Fictions" "Dinty W. Moore's prose is crisp and clean, his insights sparkle with biting clarity and magnetic charm. This is an unusual, joyful and compelling memoir."---Lee Gutkind, author of "Almost Human: Making Robots Think" and editor of "Creative Nonfiction" "This is a refreshing and invigorating book, taking the predictable memoir form in new directions---playfully, sincerely, and intelligently. This is a terrific book."---Bret Lott, author of "Jewel"

In this "unconventional, nonsequential, generational autobiography, AKA cultural memoir," Moore, a professor of English at Ohio University, describes growing up as a child of the 1950s. "Panic" characterized his youth, as he watched "the symbols of safety and security" on television-Leave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best-while his real world fell apart. His mother had left his often-inebriated father, but couldn't handle raising the children herself. "Paranoia" was the theme of his teen years, as JFK and King were assassinated; the draft and the Vietnam War drove young men to extremes; and characters like Charlie Manson, Squeaky Fromme, Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley Jr. all took aim at public figures. Moore's own paranoia was only heightened by using LSD and smoking dope while tooling around in his VW Beetle. Miraculously, "desire began to overtake panic"; he discovered a passion for writing, which has focused him ever since. Moore lays all this out in a series of free-form, almost playful essays; only there's something serious here, too, as he realizes our history seems to repeat itself: the Patriot Act sounds like 1984 and Iraq feels like Vietnam all over again. In the end, Moore (The Accidental Buddhist) takes readers on a quirky, entertaining joyride. (Mar.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

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