- Hardcover: 282 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (1 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471295388
- ISBN-13: 978-0471295389
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 17 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,386,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Deep Throat, the never–named tale teller who helped thread the maze of the Watergate scandal, is portrayed in a new book as an invented composite, not a single, rock–solid news source."—Associated Press, September 24, 1998
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"Whether it be My Lai, Watergate, The Pentagon Papers, or any of the other tumultuous events of that era, Obst seems to be in the middle of it."—Seymour M. Hersh.
An entertaining joy ride across the social and cultural frontier of the ′60s and ′70s, by the ultimate insider.
Few people saw as much or knew as many of the primary figures of the 60s and 70s as David Obst. A journalist in the maelstrom of the anti–war movement, Obst came of age in radically changing times. After his Dispatch News Service broke Sy Hersh′s Pulitzer Prize–winning story on the My Lai Massacre, Obst transformed himself into the "super agent" who quickly sewed up the Watergate intelligentsia, including Woodward and Bernstein and John Dean. Soon after, he would dabble in Hollywood, producing motion pictures and television. Too Good to Be Forgotten shares Obst′s adventures baby–sitting The Pentagon Papers in a secret hotel room, sharing dinner with Leni Reifenstahl discussing fish and Hitler, and losing his virginity in a bomb shelter before the ominous backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis. Writing in the tradition of David Halbertstam′s The Fifties but throwing in the brashness and counter–cultural foment of the 60s and 70s, Obst provides the memoir of a generation.
David Obst (Santa Monica, CA) was a journalist at the center of the anti–war movement, and is connected to the major media makers of that time, including Taylor Branch, Seymour M. Hersh, Jules Witcover, Herb Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, and Carl Bernstein. His intimacy with the political and cultural climate of the 60s and 70s make him uniquely qualified to write this poignant memoir of a generation. Obst is currently a writer–producer whose projects include a three–hour HBO special on what an evening of programming would look like in the year 2025.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating insights told with great humor
10 Oct 1998
Format:Hardcover
The Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times," couldn't apply more aptly than in Obst's tale of his life experiences during the formative stages of the boomer generation. His stories, told with a refreshing sense of humor, provide new insights about an entire generation. As a boomer myself, the attitudes he describes -- fearing atom bomb attacks, opposing the Viet Nam War and the adult generation that brought it to us, openness about sex and drugs -- bring feelings of nostalgia and, as O'Rourke suggests, embarrassment at the same time. This is a quick and enjoyable read about someone who began as a quite ordinary guy from Culver City, and ended up at the center of the My Lai Massacre story with Seymour Hersh, the Chicago 68 Yippies riot with Jerry Rubin and Abbe Hoffman, the Pentagon Papers with Daniel Ellsberg, and Watergate with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Robert Redford, and even John and Mo Dean. He's Forrest Gump, all right, but with a reflective 60's kind of attitude.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
If only they assigned this in high school history...
5 Oct 1998
Format:Hardcover
I was born too late to experience the sixties and seventies firsthand. But Obst's book seems, well, *real* -- it's a firsthand account unblemished by the cynicism and disillusionment that I sense in other chronicles of that era. He also has this subtle humor that makes the book a pleasure to read...a vestige of '60s insouciance, perhaps. In any case, Obst was uncannily *there* -- an active participant in the counterculture. He was at the Chicago riots, the People's Park protests at Berkeley, a Black Panther rally. He was integral in breaking the My Lai massacre story and the Pentagon Papers. And he has some extremely interesting insider speculation on the identity of Deep Throat. If only they assigned "Too Good To Be Forgotten" in high school history class -- the stories about Yippies, Watergate, My Lai, Ellsberg -- I surely would have remembered learning about this then.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
He was at all the right places and knew all the key players.
10 Nov 1998
Format:Hardcover
Obst was in all the right places and knew all of the key players from the 60's and 70's. He explains how strange it was to grow up in the 50's practicing the 'duck and cover' drills at school, and fearing death at any moment. As a early baby boomer myself, many memories were brought back about those times. I want my in-laws to read his book to understand why people my age are so different from other earlier and later groups.
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