Life After America, Joseph Mark Glazner
Life After America, Joseph Mark Glazner
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Life After America
A Memoir About the Wild and Crazy 1960s

Author: Joseph Mark Glazner

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/15/2019

Synopsis

What would you do if your country was on the wrong side of history?

Would you leave if you had the chance—even if leaving might ruin the rest of your life?

In 1967, Joseph Mark Glazner, a twenty-two-year-old American writer, left Los Angeles behind forever and became one of the first war resisters to go to Canada during the extremely divisive Vietnam War.

Life After America is Glazner's upbeat, personal memoir about his first two years in Canada as an FBI fugitive, new immigrant, tabloid writer, journalist, and John Lennon's accidental muse.

Glazner, an internationally acclaimed crime novelist, recounts with dark humor and the eye of a thriller writer his nearly bungled escape from the US, the sweetness and pitfalls of love in an era of sexual revolution, and his own youthful quest to make an impact on the world.

About Joseph Mark Glazner

Joseph Mark Glazner is an internationally acclaimed American-Canadian author of seven crime novels, written under his own name and his pen name, Joseph Louis, including the Shamus and Arthur Ellis nominated novel, Madelaine. Glazner's first memoir, Life After America, is about his adventures as a young American war resister and writer, who left the US for Canada as his personal protest against the Vietnam War, reinvented himself as a tabloid writer and journalist, and found a small place in history helping John Lennon kick-start his "War Is Over" campaign at the iconic Montreal Bed-In for Peace in 1969. Glazner was raised in rural Warrenville, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1967. In addition to writing crime novels and memoirs, he has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, futurist in a think tank, and communications adviser to corporations and governments in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Whispering on June 26, 2018

Book Reviewed by Clive on www.whisperingstories.com This memoir will appeal to many readers, particularly if you lived through the ’sixties, or have an interest in anti-war movements, US/Canadian politics, journalism or the Beatles. In Life After America Joseph Mark Glazner gives a very personal memoi......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 01, 2018

An inspirational memoir about the wild and crazy 1960s and how a peace-loving, creative 22-year-old southern California man, believes his country is on the wrong side of history when it sends troops to Vietnam. As the unjust war escalates, he hears about young men being drafted to serve in the killi......more

Goodreads review by Ken on October 15, 2018

A very interesting book! It helps that I know the neighbourhoods of Montreal so I can perhaps better relate. I also know Joseph but had known almost nothing about this phase of his life.......more

Goodreads review by Damien on February 12, 2018

5 Stars: The Ballad of Joseph & Vietnam There are memoirs that very important to understanding the past where you can get lost in the experience by placing yourself in their shoes. Turning the pages ( Kindle should have sound effects) and romanticizing a writer's journey which you can't get from his......more

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