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Facing serious criminal charges resulting from a 1970 anti-War demonstration, Ben Tucker navigates lawyers he doesn't trust, travels from the streets of Boston to the beaches of California through a country at war with itself, an improbable but passionate love affair, and budding communal ties out west with a group of college dropout freaks-with a date with a judge and jury in a solemn Massachusetts courtroom always looming in front of him.

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9781951289164

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"Praise for The Risk of Being Ridiculous Trilogy ""Masterpiece . . . The book never hits a false note while charting some of the most turbulent times in American history. . . When my kids ask me what the '60s were really like, I'm going to hand them this book.""- Steven Hager, High Times. ""Maynard . . .deftly captures this world of communal ideas and idealistic pursuits, a time of purpose and action when a generation tried to rewrite social rules even as they struggled to find out who they were.""-Emily Grosvenor, Eugene Magazine."

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Guy Maynard is a writer and editor living in Eugene, Oregon. He was the long-time editor of Oregon Quarterly magazine and is the author of The Risk of Being Ridiculous: A Historical Novel of Love and Revolution and editor of Best Essays NW.

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