Cold Eye, Warm Heart

Rosen, Gerald

ISBN 10: 188226018X / ISBN 13: 9781882260188

Published by Calm Unity Press, San Francisco, 2009

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540 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.20 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold Eye, Warm Heart
• Publisher: Calm Unity Press, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188226018X
• ISBN 13: 9781882260188
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.79 kilograms

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Synopsis

This is a personal history of the Sixties that reads like a novel, an American success story that turns into a spiritual journey, a comic and philosophical memoir that challenges the fundamental beliefs of our culture. The noted critic Jerome Klinkowitz, author of 23 books, has written: “This is the best book about the American cultural transformation of the last half of the twentieth century that has ever been written.” (Mr. Klinkowitz is the person Kurt Vonnegut turned to for advice on his writing.) In 1964, Jerry Rosen was a company commander in the Army Medics. For a kid from uneducated parents in the Bronx, he was making a big success in America: a degree in engineering from Rensselaer, an MBA from Wharton (with honors), the only student at Wharton selected for the Boeing Executives of the Future Program. So why was he suicidal? By 1969, he had taken a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in American History and Literature, was living in Greenwich Village, running a liquor store on the edge of Harlem, rioting against the war, dropping acid, and studying Eastern philosophy. In 1972, he published his first novel in New York City, which received a large, favorable review in The New York Times. By then he was living in a shack in northern California and meditating. He had found a path with meaning. If you wanted to read one book that was sympathetic, funny, and yet told the real truth about the Sixties, this would be the book. Gerald Rosen is the award-winning author of seven books, including the novels Blues For A Dying Nation, The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole, and Growing Up Bronx, and the non-fiction, Zen in the Art of J.D. Salinger.

About the Author

I am a novelist, the author of seven books which I've spoken about at universities from Lisbon,Bologna,Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Groningen, to Yale,Columbia,Penn, Berkeley etc. For 25 years I ran the fiction writing progam at California State Univeristy, Sonoma, north of San Francisco where I live with my wife Marijke Wittkampf of Rotterdam, a psychiatric nurse. When I married Marijke, I obtained what every author desires, my own live-in psychiatric nurse.
I grew up in The Bronx where the only professional person I knew was my uncle Lenny who was an armed robber. He was also the local cub scout leader because he was the only man on the block who had free time.