ATTENTION PUBLISHERS & LITERARY AGENTS

Keep watching here for details about my own 2007 narrative memoir book soon available. I'll reveal sample chapters and my chapters' outline here at alancanfora.com in the weeks ahead.

Here's a brief description of my memoir book:

"Alan Canfora's memoir book focuses upon the Vietnam War and Kent State student activism during years leading to May 4, 1970 at Kent State University. Canfora tells his story of life among KSU students as well as his personal radicalization after he arrived at KSU in September of 1968. Vivid descriptions of militant student protests by Kent SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) reveal Kent's radical 1968-69 SDS students planted the seeds of anti-war rebellion which blossomed in May of 1970 in Kent, Ohio. Simultaneously, Canfora also tells the stories of his hometown friends from nearby Barberton--verbatim descriptions from taped interviews--working-class youths who were drafted and suffered during the bloody US war in SE Asia. This memoir reveals anti-war Vietnam veterans in Ohio as a "Trojan Horse" sparking homegrown opposition to a wrongful war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Canfora and his room-mate Tom Grace were among KSU students shot down on May 4, 1970, just ten days after Canfora, Grace and their Kent friends attended the nearby Barberton, Ohio, funeral of Canfora's childhood friend killed in Vietnam. This is the only May 4-insider's book ever published -- a vivid inside description of parallel tragic events in Kent and Vietnam sliding toward chaos and anarchy. Political, social and cultural aspects of life among students at KSU are described as the months unfold before the tragic massacre. An epic tragedy of a generation, this unique memoir offers lessons for both older and younger Americans. While America again slides toward international and national chaos provoked by another Vietnam-style foreign war of wrongful intervention in Iraq, this book is timely indeed."

War, Anti-War.

Vietnam, Kent State.

Get ready...