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The 1960s are remembered for radical politics, explorations of sexuality, drug experimentation and rock and roll. All of these elements composed the 60s counterculture. Then things changed. Richard Nixon got elected president, and together with Congress, made the war on drugs a cultural and political crusade replete with lots of cops, guns and constitutional violations. Youthful protesters were murdered by authorities in Berkeley, Kent State and Jackson State. Divisions over tactics and politics combined with police repression to splinter and dissipate the left political movement. The Vietnam war finally ended and Abbie Hoffman went underground after a cocaine bust. Meanwhile, in one of its most manipulative moments, corporate America was quickly figuring out how to put sex, drugs and rock and roll up for sale. Hippies became freaks; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Pigpen died untimely deaths, but the rock show went on. The 1970s were the decade the Sixties spirit struggled to survive while becoming a shadow of its dreams. Daydream Sunset is the story Ron Jacobs tells in his colorful history of the 1970s. From the Fillmore East to Oakland Coliseum; from Berkeley's Telegraph Ave to the streets of Europe, this alternative history of this fraught time will make you feel like dancing in your seats and wondering what might have been. One part reminiscence and several parts cultural history, Jacobs has crafted a thrilling and intimate narrative that takes the reader on a trip through a crazy history some people don't remember and others want us to forget.

Explores the history of the Weather Underground Organization, a radical movement in the 1960s that attempted to end the United States' presence in Vietnam through guerilla combat

A young draftee named Victor Willard goes AWOL in Germany after an altercation with a commanding officer. Porgy is an African-American GI involved with the international Black Panthers and German radicals. Victor and a female radical named Ana fall in love. They move into Ana's room in a squatted building near the US base in Frankfurt. The international campaign to free Black revolutionary Angela Davis is coming to Frankfurt. Porgy and Ana are key organizers and Victor spends his days and nights selling and smoking hashish, while becoming addicted to heroin. Police and narcotics agents are keeping tabs on them all. Politics, love, and drugs. Truths, lies, and rock and roll. All the Sinners, Saints is a story of people seeking redemption in a world awash in sin.This is the third novel in the Seventies series by Jacobs, and is a prequel to Short Order Frame Up (ISBN- 9780977459094) and Co-Conspirator's Tale (ISBN- 9780983206309).

Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation, chronicles Ron Jacobs' journeys from New England to Oregon, Texas to Minnesota and beyond, examining the US as it struggles to remember and redefine itself on its way toward an uncertain future.

Drawing on a childhood experience as a US military dependent, Ron Jacobs looks at imperialist war and what needs to be done to oppose it.In 2017, not long after Donald Trump moved into the White House, Fomite began publishing a series of essays, contemplations and provocations in reaction, a collection called Fomite Interrogations that ultimately featured seventeen titles discussing content from Karl Marx to capitalism to reality itself. Now that Trump has been re-instated, vowing vengeance, and selling a vision of the US that embodies the darkest parts of its history, Fomite is initiating a new series called Fomite Instigations.

"Millions of people are disappointed that Donald Trump is back in the White House...So, what can we do?In 2017, not long after Donald Trump moved into the White House, Fomite began publishing a series of essays, contemplations and provocations in reaction, a collection called Fomite Interrogations that ultimately featured seventeen titles discussing content from Karl Marx to capitalism to reality itself. Now that Trump has been re-instated, vowing vengeance, and selling a vision of the US that embodies the darkest parts of its history, Fomite is initiating a new series called Fomite Instigations.

This book is a journey through our current reality. From Donald Trump to NCIS; from the rock and roll of Bruce Springsteen to the jazz melodies of Wadada Leo Smith; from the football fields of the NFL to the punk bars of San Francisco, Ron Jacobs guides the reader through the madness we call the twenty-first century. It's rarely pretty, but it can be entertaining. This collection of essays written between 2012 and 2018 are a sampling of Jacobs' writing for Counterpunch and other magazines over those years.