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    Turned On!: A Young Professor’S 1960S Memoir
    Turned On!: A Young Professor’S 1960S Memoir
    Turned On!: A Young Professor’S 1960S Memoir
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    Turned On!: A Young Professor’S 1960S Memoir

    By S. P. Perone

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    No decade before or since witnessed cultural, technical, and social changes as dramatic as the 1960s. Pop culture reflected a transition from the rigid 1950s to the permissive 1970s. The Vietnam War spawned student protests, draft card burning, and a hippie counter-culture.

    Caught up in these turbulent times was author Sam Perone, a nave young professor beginning his career at the tender age of twenty-threeyoung enough to run in student circles. Perones unlikely arrival in 1962 at a prestigious universitylacking credentials and experiencelaunched an erratic journey laced with angst, liberating diversions, exciting research, bitter conflicts, dismal failures, and exhilarating successes. In Turned On!, he shares his own life story against the backdrop of the times.

    A collection of personal experiences that characterize that turbulent decade, this memoir tells about the time Perone got tipsy during his university job interview; the weeks he slept in chemistry labs; the explosions, floods, flashes, pranks, and jolts that marked his early research; the wild parties fueled by lab alcohol; his unexpected love affair in 1967 San Francisco; the sometimes serious, sometimes disturbing, and always laughable instances of faculty clashes; and finally his pivotal involvement in the minicomputer revolution.

    Turned On! describes a personal journey toward self-realization in a world that was rapidly changing in fascinating ways. It captures the impact on campus life of historical events that defined the 1960s, but also provides insights to the inner workings of the academic world in that era and beyond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 17, 2014
    ISBN9781491743942
    Turned On!: A Young Professor’S 1960S Memoir
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    S. P. Perone

    Sam Perone has worked in academic and government arenas and as a consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published numerous technical articles, two textbooks, nine novels and two memoirs. He and his wife live in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. Visit his web site at www.samperone.com.

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