JOCK: a memoir of the counterculture, by Robert Coe
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"JOCK: a memoir of the counterculture" is a coming-of-age story about a college athlete, but also an unexpurgated account of how the counterculture, war, politics, anti-authoritarianism, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll impacted the world of big-time college athletics in the late Sixties and early Seventies. JOCK tells about a walk-on from Seabrook, Texas who arrives at Stanford University in the fall of '68 and unexpectedly blossoms into a distance running star. He encounters hippiedom in his freshman dorm and race and anti-war politics on campus; a right-wing Head Coach and U.S. Olympic team leader with a Paleolithic worldview; a Head Trainer who slaps a freshman because he disapproves of that freshman's anti-racist activism; and an Athletic Department P.R. Director who mocks him at a “booster” breakfast supposedly held in his honor. But the runner perseveres because of his passionate commitment to his sport, his school, some great teammates (including two future Olympians), an unassuming Assistant Coach, and a wild & crazy fraternity house full of recreational drug-using countercultural football heroes and Olympic swim stars. (The book names names and takes no prisoners.) He competes in cross-country and track against some of the greatest runners of the age, including the legendary Steve Prefontaine (the subject of two feature films in 1997 and 1998.) His Zelig-like encounters eventually take him overseas to one of Stanford’s European campuses, where he evolves into a full-blown hippie, hitch-hiking (and training) across England, France, Spain, Holland, Germany and over the Swiss Alps in February, sleeping in fields (and smoking hash) until the lure of competition draws him back to Palo Alto for more triumphs and soul-testing adversity. The two years that follow are interspersed with up-close tales about two extraordinary Rose Bowl victories by Stanford’s countercultural “Indians,” who upset heavily-favored, conservative Midwestern powerhouses: Woody Hayes’ “Team of the Decade,” the “four-yards-and-a-cloud of dust” Ohio State Buckeyes, and the best football team in the history of the University of Michigan, Bo Schembechler’s 1971 Wolverines. The story ends shortly after the author’s graduation, when he begins to explore the wisdom acquired from his journey into the heart of athletic achievement. At 145,000 words, JOCK offers readers a deep dive into the largest participatory sport in the United States: running today has forty million participants and a financial demographic comparable to golf. There has never been memoir of Stanford University from this period, and never a sports memoir quite like this one, mostly because it’s as much cultural history as it is a description of one man’s trippy adventures through one of the most vivid periods in America’s recent past to have been alive and young and reaching for the stars. Robert Coe’s journalism has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone, New York magazine and a host of other publications. His plays have been produced across the country, and his book “Dance in America,” published by E.P. Dutton, was the official book of the PBS “Dance in America” television series.
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- Published on: 2015-06-13
- Released on: 2015-06-13
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JOCK: a memoir of the counterculture, by Robert Coe About the Author Robert Coe is a writer living in New Jersey. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and Arts and Leisure section, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York, the Village Voice, American Theatre Magazine, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. His first play, "War Babies," received four nominations from the San Diego Theater Critics Circle, including Best New Play, and a Drama-Logue Award for Best Play. His book for "The Photographer" (with music by Philip Glass) opened the first NEXT WAVE, a world festival of contemporary performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and later toured the eastern U.S. Coe served as dramaturge and occasional co-writer at BAM for Laurie Anderson's "United States: Parts I-IV," a legendary work that introduced performance art into the international arts mainstream. He also wrote the book for the coast-to-coast national tour of the Tim Rice/ABBA musical "Chess,” and with three-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, co-wrote PERFECT LIGHT, a screenplay for Touchstone Pictures and The Walt Disney Company. As a dancer he performed with Bill T. Jones and Jane Comfort, and later wrote a book, "Dance in America" (E.P. Dutton, 1985), as the official companion volume to PBS’s long-running television series. In addition to the official catalogue for the First NEXT WAVE Festival at BAM, he wrote the catalogue for the first New York International Festival of the Arts, the largest performing arts festival of the twentieth century. He is currently working on two books: "NOTHING LIKE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE: An Autobiography of Downtown New York, 1974-1989," and a novel, "The Princess of the Leafy Suburbs."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I loved this book By rob benedetti I'm not very objective about this book. The author is a friend of mine from Stanford and we share many friends and memories. Plus, I have been a competitive mastersrunner for 30 years. after playing soccer as a Stanford "jock". That being said, I loved this book. I inhaled it faster than any book I've read recently. The running detail will appeal to serious runners as intimate insight into the higher echelons of our sport. The counterculture aspects are simply fun to rehash and wonder how we all survived. It may appeal to the younger generation to gain insight into their parents and, if still alive, to the generation ahead of us to read about what their children were truly doing. Everything about this book was authentic and helped me remember what I did, but had forgotten.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Great Read By Shawn H I really enjoyed this book. As a distance runner, I most enjoyed the author's memories of being young, fast, and part of a team of characters. But he also describes in great detail how it was--at least for him (I grew up under much different circumstances and much more conservative political influences)--to grow up amid the turmoil of the counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s. I was continually amazed at the author's recollections--it was as if he had written, as a young man, an incredibly colorful and detailed journal not just of his running experiences, but of his entire adolescence with the foresight that he would one day write this book. Although the author was never a famoust runner, he reached heights that most competitive runners can only wish to achieve, despite, in my opinion, wasting his potential. They say that "Youth is wasted on the young," and the author, like so many of us, wasted much of his youth on typically foolish, immature pursuits of adventure, escape, and a "good time." As the author writes, in one of my favorite quotes from the book, "I also know that nothing haunts us like promise unfulfilled." It takes years and maturity to come to that realization, and many of us eventually do. The race descriptions are great, putting the reader right there with the author as a young runner whose ambitions, successes and disappointments are so common among compeitive runners. There is a lot of boasting (youthful or "glory days" reminiscing--it's never quite clear, but it's something so many of us do), but there is much self-deprecation to balance it out. The in-depth, colorful, real-life character descriptions make the reader feel like he/she almost knows the young Don Kardong, Duncan McDonald and others while they were in "cocoon" stage prior to becoming great world-class runners. Now, a note to those of you who, like myself, are much more conservative than the author was as a youth and, who knows?, perhaps still is today: There is a lot of rebellious, youthful, very liberal discussion that sometimes approaches the level of know-it-all preaching. I get it. But even though the author--at least as a young man--and I are essentially polar opposites politically, I found his youthful complaints and attitude wonderfully insightful and revealing. The saying goes that "If you're under 30 and not a liberal you have no heart, but if you're over 30 and not a conservative you have no brain." There is a lot of immature, "under 30" foolishness in the young author's political thinking, but recognizing that this book was written by a man now approaching his golden years leaves the reader with the realization that the mind that created this memoir is anything but immature and foolish. I highly recommend this book to runners and non-runners alike.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. "Jock," A great book about Stanford Cross Country and Track from 1968 to 1972 By David Whiteing This is a great book, a literary work of art, about one scholar athlete’s life and experiences as a star runner at Stanford University from 1968 to 1972. The book seems to be well researched and truly captures the essence of the times. Reading through this book you’ll experience what it were like to be a student and athlete at Stanford during the time of the counterculture of rock music, hippies, flower children, drugs and Vietnam War protesters. You’ll experience the thrill of competing in the Track and Cross Country races that the author describes as if you are running those races yourself. The author also tells you about his teammates and coaches and some of the other great runners he competed against at that time. The book, however, provides more than just an account of Stanford Track and Field. Besides those sports, it tells you about some of the other sports and great athletes competing at Stanford during this time. For example, the author discusses some of the Stanford Olympic swimmers and great football players on the two Stanford Rose Bowl teams of ’71 and ’72. In addition, the author also describes frat life, War protests, his experiences and travels’ attending one of Stanford’s oversees campuses in Europe, and the major political and historical events occurring at that time. I would recommend this book highly for anyone who wants to know what it was like to attend Stanford University as a student athlete in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and wants to get a feel for the culture and major political and historical events of the times.
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