i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60 s about 40 years ago i remember the political action of mark rudd at columbia, and i remember reading joyce maynard and 18 year old looks back on life on the front page of the new york times in 1972. and martha tod dudman has been my friend for more than 20 years. so i would like to a just briefly introduced the panelist, and then we will get started. joyce maynard, immediately to my left grew up into new hampshire and now lives in marin county. her book that came out of that new york times magazine piece is at the ten at looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the sixties . i had this book. it has been with me a long time. joyce has ridden the second memoir called at home in the world which was written in 1998 and updated last year. in the middle of our panel is martha tod dudman who lives on mount desert island, maine or as we call it, mount desert island. she has been in busin
allow himself to be beaten by his master and that was the term of between the war in kenya there was nothing to beat your house servant. they wouldn t stand for it on one occasion he actually took the king of his boss to and hit him with it and he was arrested and then released because the magistrate said that was in the protection. so although he did live with the british under the british rule he was a young man. host: he seems to be fiercely independent. certainly not someone to put up with nonsense from anyone either on his wife or his son. on the other hand he does raise a politically incorrect question because he asks the question how did we, the africans, get into this situation, how did the white man in particular britain on the tiny island control one-third or one-half of the real estate on the planet. it s got to be something to do with technology and power and organizational skills and commercial and military strength. so in some sense she is saying the af
whatever. you find yourself 18 years old then. i grew up in a small new hampshire town and always wanted to get out of the town. i wanted to hit the big city. i was always writing. at 18i think i understood that there was only one subject about which i was fully equipped to right, and that was my own life. so i began writing young as my ticket out of new hampshire. what proved to be my one and only a year of college. i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that there was only one topic i was an expert on. he said why don t you write about growing up in the 60 s. that became a cover story in the new yorkte in the good and a troubling ways and altman they lead to publishing that book before i got too old. they were rushing me they did not want me to be 20. [laughter] none of us are 20 now but i wrote this book expecting to fly after another but i had
i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60 s about 40 years ago i remember the political action of mark rudd at columbia, and i remember reading joyce maynard and 18 year old looks back on life on the front page of the new york times in 1972. and martha tod dudman has been my friend for more than 20 years. so i would like to a just briefly introduced the panelist, and then we will get started. joyce maynard, immediately to my left grew up into new hampshire and now lives in marin county. her book that came out of that new york times magazine piece is at the ten at looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the sixties . i had this book. it has been with me a long time. joyce has ridden the second memoir called at home in the world which was written in 1998 and updated last year. in the middle of our panel is martha tod dudman who lives on mount desert island, maine or as we call it, mount desert island. she has been in busin