"Confessions Of a Crabgrass Cowboy" is a tale about coming of age in a fresh and eccentric environment called suburbia. As a personal memoir, the book details the vicissitudes of replacing playground bullies with "Playboy Playmates," while simultaneously preparing daily for the Armageddon we were promised was right around the corner.

"Confessions Of a Crabgrass Cowboy" also chronicles the cultural quirks of the era itself-Dick and Jane, CONELRAD, Charles Atlas, Tupperware(r), X-Ray spectacles, coon skin caps, and anatomically correct dolls are but a handful-that we now so closely and...