1957: An Epic Of The Fifties

Note: This eBook is over 160,000 words long and contains many photographs. If it were a print book, it would be over 700 pages long. Turn back the clock and return to the spring of 1957 in the Heart of America where Rock ‘N’ Roll is king—still new, raw, and spontaneous. Divorce is the exception, not the rule. Cars are American: big V-8 mothers made in Detroit sporting shark fins, shiny chrome and are fast as pure-D-hell. Though there is undoubtedly a commie hiding around every corner, front doors are never locked, and ignition keys are left in cars. Gangsters are Mafia “made guys.” The business of America is business, and it’s booming. Dads have good jobs and money in the bank. Moms don’t work. Kids play outside and walk to neighborhood schools. Teachers teach. Kids learn. Recreational drugs haven’t seen the light of day. All movies and TV programs are “G” rated. Even discussing sex in polite society is taboo. Behind closed doors, anything goes. In this Eisenhower-Fifties environment, fueled by fast cars, booze, sex, and rock ‘n’ roll the close-knit group of friends from Isom High find themselves unexpectedly caught up in a wide variety of life altering events that suck them up and thrust them headfirst into a swirling maelstrom that continually flings them to and fro, back and forth between the emotional heights of ecstasy and depths of agony, bliss and heartbreak, understanding and confusion, joy and misery, love and hate, peace and rage, harmony and discord, trust and doubt, happiness and displeasure, success and failure, calm and panic, courage and cowardice.