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To Aspen and Back by Peggy Clifford - Foreword by Hunter S. Thompson

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ISBN
9780996454513
Publication Name
To Aspen and Back : an American Journey
Item Length
10.2in
Publisher
Meat Possum Press
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
2in
Author
Peggy Clifford
Educational Level
Adult & Further Education
Item Width
11in
Item Weight
80.2 Oz
Number of Pages
232 Pages

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Aspen, Colorado: elevation 7900 feet, resident population 6000; America's largest ski resort; site of the prestigious Aspen Music Festival and School and the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. Home of leading pop singer John Denver, leading outlaw- journalist Hunter S. Thompson, leading best-selling novelist Leon Uris, leading comedian Steve Martin, leading man Jack Nicholson. Described by national media as "the place of the seventies."Like New York and Hollywood, Aspen describes a state of mind and a way of life. In its 100-year history, the town has staged the birth, death, and resurrection of the "American Dream." It is the legend of that attainable dream that Peggy Clifford illuminates in her story of the growth of this American town.We see the dream take root and flower silver when Aspen is founded by a group of prospectors on a mother vein forty miles wide; we see it wither and die some ten years later. We see it manifest again as a Chicago industrialist comes to town in the 1940s with a host of co-big daddies including Albert Schweitzer and Mortimer Adler, and goes about making a place where America can turn from things to ideas, aiming for a "total synthesis of human life."But the directions of dreams are not always consistent. The town-out-of-time attracted innocents, dreamers and fugitives from the Land of Plenty, but the town of art and sport they created attracted others smart enough to know a good and profitable thing. Ski facilities were expanded, boutiques appeared, a wall of condominiums separated town from mountain. Once out of step, Aspen is in vogue, and a more modern version of the dream motivates the place: pleasure is business, and business is a pleasure.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Meat Possum Press
ISBN-10
0996454519
ISBN-13
9780996454513
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23057262861

Product Key Features

Author
Peggy Clifford
Publication Name
To Aspen and Back : an American Journey
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Educational Level
Adult & Further Education
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
10.2in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
11in
Item Weight
80.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Grade from
Up
Grade to
Up
Illustrated by
Hiser, David
Copyright Date
2021
Target Audience
Adult Education
Afterword by
Watkins, Daniel Joseph
Topic
United States / General
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History

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