1976 by Megan Volpert

Title: 1976
Author: Megan Volpert
Type: Essays
Release Date: April 15, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-943977-05-5
Retail Price: $19.76
Illustrations by Asher Haig

"1976 plucks the deepest chords of America's Bicentennial year. It exposes the guts of our country's political, historical, and cultural machine in a prose that matches the rhythms of horror, joy, and sheer madness in our national psyche. This is as original, inventive, and fresh a book as any historian or novelist of note has written about the US. A juggernaut of improbability and inevitability, her vision of America rolls in simultaneously from the past and the future, with a posse of grand ghosts. Her brilliant saga is driven by the music that never stops rocking the North American continent, and, in an essential way, births her. Volpert is heir to Whitman, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Ramones who, unbeknownst to themselves, will appear in 1976—a book that heralds a grand new genre." - Andrei Codrescu, author and Peabody Award-winner for the film Road Scholar, a journey into post-Kerouac America.

THE AUTHOR: Megan Volpert writes for PopMatters and is the author of seven books on communication and popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists. She has been teaching high school English in Atlanta for a decade and was 2014 Teacher of the Year. She edited the American Library Association-honored anthology This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching.