Chasing America: Notes from a Rock 'n' Soul Integrationist

by Dennis Watlington

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Thomas Dunne Books, 2006-01-24. Hardcover. BRAND NEW HARDCOVER IN NEW JACKE. Born in Harlem in 1952, Dennis Watlington has been walking a tightrope his entire life. At the age of 14, after bouncing in and out of various schools, Dennis got addicted to heroin. But instead of being another -one trick pony of victimization,+ Dennis kicked his habit and received a scholarship to the Hotchkiss School, where he was elected president of his class. He then went to NYU, grew out his afro and became a different kind of Bleecker Street hippie--part Panther and part Walrus.+Playing against type his whole life, Dennis became involved in film and theater, got addicted to crack, kicked that, and finally pulled it together to become an Emmy winning television writer.And that+s just a thin, thin slice of this man+s story.Chasing America shows us the best and worst that America offers to a black man-from the Jim Crow South to boarding school life in New England to backstage at the Fillmore East to a holding cell in Bellevue Hospital.

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