No faint hearts -- A clean burrow -- The real man, the imagination -- Peru -- Forebears -- Natural shocks -- Lake effect -- No Jews, no commies, no fags neither -- A statute of limitations.
Summary:
After John F. Kennedy's speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylor's teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president's assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didn't, his memories of summer camp and family trips, he reflects upon the out-sized impact our larger American story had on his own.
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