The Purple Decades: A Reader

396 pp. Introduction by Joe David Bellamy, illustrations throughout. The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play. Includes: Introduction by Joe David Bellamy; Bob & Spike; The Last American Hero; The Voices of Village Square; Purveyor of the Public Life; A Sunday Kind of Love; The Girl of the Year; The Woman Who Has Everything; The Pump-House Gang; The Mid-Atlantic Man; On the Bus; These Radical Chic Evenings; Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie; The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening; The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America; Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine; Vignettes; The Apache Dance; The White Gods; The Angels; Yaeger.