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Ruined Time is a memoir of the Great Depression, World War II, and the 1950s - that pivotal decade of the 20thCentury in which a delusive military-industrial complex not only corporatized the Cold War but planted the seeds of today's freakish globalism ... while a Beat Generation revised the awareness of consciousness.
Coming Spring 2008!
Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons Three Reads by Robert Briggs Opus One - The Beat and the 1950's |
 Ruined Time is a knockout ...a mesmerizing memoir that sees through the scene and peers into the soul of an age ...evoking a transformational time in American history .. clear-eyed nostalgia, critical and unflinching, yet searching and sympathetic ... a wild, wonderful ride." Gerald Lubenow, Public Policy Press, UC Berkeley "In Ruined Time ... we get a full-blooded, many-sided account of the cultural sources that gave rise to the uniquely Beat outlook on life, which, in turn, enhances our appreciation of the themes of Beat literature. For anyone teaching a course on Twentieth Century American Cultural History, Briggs' book would be an excellent way to bring the period and literature alive for today's students."Clayton Morgareidge, Professor Emeritus, Lewis and Clark College |
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