White Papers on Policy

Kurt Vonnegut's corpus literati, particularly Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), influenced me at some unconscious level of my psyche. I do not know how widely read his books are anymore. They were hugely popular among my contemporaries who, like me, came of age in the Sixties, a most peculiar time. I don't think that the young people of today have any idea what it was like to emerge in the Sixties with collegiate hallways plastered with numerous posters of assorted "e;ad hoc committees"e; for this and that, but primarily civil rights and peace. I am unaware of any book that adequately depicts that journey but I know, whatever else this book that you presently have in your hands may be, that this book does not address that quest except at a subliminal level. So, caveat emptor.