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Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s

Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s - Paperback

by Richard Rushfield
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard RushfieldAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-11-02Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781592405855ISBN-10:1592405851UPC:9781592405855Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, EducationBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Literary Figures, TeachingBook Topic:Methods & StrategiesSize:7.98 x 5.34 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SC7N7ZKS55
Richard Rushfield takes us on an unforgettable and hilarious trip through higher alternative education in the eighties.

Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost is a strange and salacious memoir about life at the ultimate New England hippie college at the height of Reaganomics. Opening its doors in 1970, Hampshire College was an experiment in progressive education that went hilariously awry. Self- proclaimed nerd Richard Rushfield enrolled with the freshman class of 1986, hoping to shed his wholesome California upbringing in this liberal hideout, where overachievement and preppy clothes were banned.

By turns hilarious, ironic, and steeped in history, Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost takes readers to a campus populated by Deadheads, club kids, poets, and insomniac filmmakers, at a time when America saw the rise of punk and grunge alongside neoconservatism, earnest calls for political correctness, and Take Back the Night vigils. Imagine Lord of the Flies set on a college campus and you have Richard Rushfield's alma mater experience.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781592405855ISBN-10:1592405851UPC:9781592405855Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, EducationBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Literary Figures, TeachingBook Topic:Methods & StrategiesSize:7.98 x 5.34 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SC7N7ZKS55
Journalist Richard Rushfield is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood. His writing has also appeared in many other publications, including The New York Times, Variety, and LA Weekly. He lives in Venice, California.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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