Life After America
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What would you do if your country was on the wrong side of history? Would you leave if you had the chance—even if leaving might ruin the rest of your life?In 1967, Joseph Mark Glazner, a twenty-two-year-old American writer, left Los Angeles behind forever and became one of the first war resisters to go to Canada during the extremely divisive Vietnam War.Life After America is Glazner’s upbeat, personal memoir about his first two years in Canada as an FBI fugitive, new immigrant, tabloid writer, journalist, and John Lennon’s accidental muse.Glazner, an internationally acclaimed crime novelist, recounts with dark humor and the eye of a thriller writer his nearly bungled escape from the US, the sweetness and pitfalls of love in an era of sexual revolution, and his own youthful quest to make an impact on the world.Like many new immigrants throughout history, Glazner soon discovered that physically emigrating was easier than emotionally leaving his homeland.Consumed with exiting the US as his personal protest against the war, he thought little about where he was going. Canada was the closest safe haven, but he knew so little about it he thought Montreal was on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere north of Boston. He had no idea what Quebec separatists were.In Canada, half the news coverage was American. He couldn’t escape its impact. Glazner chronicles his own psychological turmoil as the war continued to escalate, and two men of reason—Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy—were shot dead. He watched with growing despair as Richard Nixon became President on the promise of a secret plan to quickly end the war. (Spoiler alert: There was no plan.)In Canada, he marveled at the rise of Pierre Trudeau and agonized over the threat from terrorist bombs to Canada and to his own refuge.Never a formal member of any protest or anti-war group, Glazner’s quest to think for himself and draw his own conclusions will resonate with many today in an in
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