Younger Than That Now: A Shared Passage from the Sixties. This item is unavailable.Younger Than That Now: A Shared Passage from the Sixties

A thirty-year correspondence between a New Yorker and a Southerner--pen pals since the summer of 1969--chronicles a series of political discussions, love affairs, regrets, divorces, and heartbreak.

ble-rousing New York high school senior. She was a fiercely proud daughter of the Deep South. In 1969 these two strangers exchanged angry letters, igniting a lifetime friendship and an extraordinary personal chronicle of our times.<br><br>She was a conservative Mississippi girl. He was a self-styled firebrand from New York. In 1969, in an America torn apart by differences, two very dissimilar teens put their hearts on paper and began a friendship that would span thirty years. Now, in this collaborative memoir, they tell an unforgettable story that is a testament to who we were yesterday... and who we are now.<br><br>It began when a group of bored Long Island high school newspaper reporters wrote, for a lark, an obnoxious note to Ruth Tuttle, the editor of a Deep South school paper. The New York teens included a future documentary filmmaker, a concert violinist, and the founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream--but