![]() It was a brutal time, and a beautiful time.Īnd so Hilderbrand’s novel carrying the evocative title “Summer of ‘69” has a formidable burden: understand how the principal power structures of American life - in the Congress, in the family, in the streets - were tottering, hang a narrative to it, and infuse it with drama. The conventions, the assumptions, the folkways, of American life were under siege everywhere. It also was in the streets, around the dinner table, in the bedroom. It was the summer of 1969, a war was on, and the combat wasn’t only in Vietnam. Selective service notices were in the mail, rebellion was in the air. Kennedy’s automobile accident at Chappaquiddick, and a month before Woodstock. Elin Hilderbrand was born a week before both the Apollo 11 moon landing and Senator Edward M. ![]()
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