Eat Your Heart Out Ho Chi Minh is a memoir of life at Yale and in the army before and during the Vietnam War and a history of the social evolution of the US in the 1960s. The sorrows of the period are well known; the often funny events and positive changes are less well remembered. Americans are much more free today because of the 1960s (but not as free as we might be.) We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us. The book addresses questions like: Why don't Americans trust their government or each other? What was Vietnam like when you weren't being shot at? How did blacks and...

Gracious North Fork, Connecticut - a sleepy WASP backwater - is jolted awake when a mega-rich outsider plans to build a world-class golf resort on a pristine piece of rural real estate. The local trust fund kids vow to protect their cud-chewing way of life, banding together to resist the intruder in their own genteel way. Brute force intervenes in the form of Byron Weinberg, the town's gay Jewish mayor. Because of his unconventional political agenda, Weinberg allows no development in his town. Ever.... Neither gracious nor genteel, Weinberg uses creative methods to stop the golf course - from...

A book for people who laugh at things people aren't supposed to laugh at Discover what happens in tiny, rural North Fork, CT--pop. 2000--after Wall Street causes a total US financial meltdown. Soon there are no Connecticut police since they walk off the job after their pay stops for good. The prison guards release all prisoners and go home. Mobs form in the cities. The little town is on its own. The town's aging band of wealthy do-gooders improvise a drastic new approach to free healthcare. News comes that the mob plans to attack the little town. This inspires the mayor to form a band of...