The world seems to work on sales. We're always selling something, ideas, an image of ourselves, products, etc. If you think about it for a minute you may see that selling, the act of convincing someone to take action is a fundamental part of life.&n...

If you would prefer to listen to this chapter: click here The late afternoon sun filtered through the Spanish moss as the guys from Ohio State and I piled into their beat-up sedan. I tossed my worn knapsack into the trunk, everything I owned fitting...

This is the true story of the year I turned 21, broke free, and hit the open road. It was 1970. I hitchhiked to Mardi Gras with a knapsack, worked on an oil rig in the Gulf, and drove 14,000 miles on canned sardines playing sidekick for my friend St...

“Russell Beck’s memoir captures a year when America teetered between the countercultural ’60s and the uncertain ’70s.”Beck was 21, broke, and directionless, exactly the kind of person who ends up with stories worth telling. The book begins with him ...

The shadow of the draft had hung over me for four years, a constant threat, a ticking time bomb. College and the merchant marine had offered fleeting escapes, but now they were gone. The reprieve was over, the bomb was ticking louder, and the clock ...