* President Bush has tried to rescind Clinton’s roadless rule, but has been kept from doing so by the courts. NREPA continues to be reintroduced in Congress, year after year.
* The term “baby boomer” by now had come to refer to anyone who had lived through the 1960s, even as a child. It literally refers to the broad population of people born between 1946 (after the end of World War II) to 1964.
* Whitman had appropriated the idea of New York as a modern-day biblical capital from William Blake’s urbanity-venerating words (“And was Jerusalem builded here / Among these dark Satanic mills?”) in Blake’s poem “The New Jerusalem.”
* Needless to say, this is a different Larry Norton from the hippie preacher who performed Carole King’s third wedding.
Table of Contents
PART ONE “WE CAN ONLY LOOK BEHIND FROM WHERE WE CAME”
overture
Three Women, Three Moments, One Journey
PART TWO “I’M HOME AGAIN, IN MY OLD NARROW BED”
chapter one
Carole
chapter two
Joni
chapter three
Carly
PART THREE “AND THE SUN POURED IN LIKE BUTTERSCOTCH”
chapter four
Carole: 1961–1964
chapter five
Joni: 1961–Early 1965
chapter six
Carly: 1961–Late 1965
chapter seven
Carole: 1964–Early 1969
chapter eight
Joni: March 1965–December 1967
chapter nine
Carly: 1965–1969
PART FOUR “I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET”
chapter ten
Joni: Late 1967–Mid-1970
chapter eleven
Carole: 1969–1970 / Joni: 1970 / Carole and Joni: Early 1971–1972
chapter twelve
Carly: Mid-1970–Early 1973
PART FIVE “WE JUST COME FROM SUCH DIFFERENT SETS OF CIRCUMSTANCE”
chapter thirteen
Carole: 1972–1984
chapter fourteen
Joni: 1972–1982
chapter fifteen
Carly: Late 1973–Late 1987
PART SIX “IN THE RIVER I KNOW I WILL FIND THE KEY”
coda
The Middle ’80s to the Present: Three Women, Three Endings, One Journey
Source Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Discography
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