LENNON IN AMERICA: Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries, 1971-1980

Giuliano, Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 0815410735 / ISBN 13: 9780815410737

Published by Cooper Square Press, NY, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LENNON IN AMERICA: Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries, 1971-1980
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press, NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815410735
• ISBN 13: 9780815410737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

John Lennon is one of the most well known founders of rock 'n' roll. The glamour surrounding the life and death of this superstar has been portrayed in myriad books. But never from his own point of view.
Lennon in America goes beyond the guesses, allegations, and suppositions to get to the explosive truth of the matter. Geoffrey Giuliano looks at the man who was perpetually at odds with himself and unravels the mystery of Lennon's private life through interviews with family members and friends, letters, and never before published diaries and tapes from Lennon himself. What the book reveals in chapter after chapter, is a man desperate for help but surrounded by people Lennon perceived to be bent on his continued fall into depression, bulimia, and cultism. The reader finds that Lennon is full of contradiction—devoted husband and adulterer; he is portrayed as a doting dad, but was an absentee father; a macrobiotic health enthusiast who wrestled with alcoholism, heroin addiction, and bulimia; he was a spokesman for world peace, but was unable to control his volcanic temper; a vocal feminist and recalcitrant chauvinist; an innovative and influential rock 'n' roller who renounced music for years.

As this book makes abundantly clear, Lennon himself was painfully conscious of his weaknesses, excesses, and failings, of the disparity between the public image and his everyday person. He spent a lifetime struggling to understand himself and to reconcile the conflicts within him, a struggle that ended in New York in 1980 when he was assassinated. Lennon in America offers a revolutionary and all-too-human view of the twentieth century's most legendary rock 'n' roller by the writer most qualified to tell the tale.

About the Author

Geoffrey Giuliano is a well-known international celebrity biographer, record producer, actor and pop culture authority. He also lectures occasionally at Northwestern University. He lives in Lockport, near Buffalo, NY.