The Electric Windmill: An Inadvertent Autobiography

ISBN-10: 0895265680
ISBN-13: 9780895265685
Pages: 294
Language: English
Published: 1988
Publisher: Gateway Books
Author: Tom Bethell

Description

Essays discuss the Kennedy assassination, Eric Hoffer, the Soviet Union, homosexuality, AIDS, the Jonestown tragedy, evolution, and American politics

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