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Girls Like Us

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by Sheila Weller


  * President Bush has tried to rescind Clinton’s roadless rule, but has been kept from doing so by the courts. NREPA continues to be reintroduced in Congress, year after year.

  * The term “baby boomer” by now had come to refer to anyone who had lived through the 1960s, even as a child. It literally refers to the broad population of people born between 1946 (after the end of World War II) to 1964.

  * Whitman had appropriated the idea of New York as a modern-day biblical capital from William Blake’s urbanity-venerating words (“And was Jerusalem builded here / Among these dark Satanic mills?”) in Blake’s poem “The New Jerusalem.”

  * Needless to say, this is a different Larry Norton from the hippie preacher who performed Carole King’s third wedding.

  Table of Contents

  PART ONE “WE CAN ONLY LOOK BEHIND FROM WHERE WE CAME”

  overture

  Three Women, Three Moments, One Journey

  PART TWO “I’M HOME AGAIN, IN MY OLD NARROW BED”

  chapter one

  Carole

  chapter two

  Joni

  chapter three

  Carly

  PART THREE “AND THE SUN POURED IN LIKE BUTTERSCOTCH”

  chapter four

  Carole: 1961–1964

  chapter five

  Joni: 1961–Early 1965

  chapter six

  Carly: 1961–Late 1965

  chapter seven

  Carole: 1964–Early 1969

  chapter eight

  Joni: March 1965–December 1967

  chapter nine

  Carly: 1965–1969

  PART FOUR “I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET”

  chapter ten

  Joni: Late 1967–Mid-1970

  chapter eleven

  Carole: 1969–1970 / Joni: 1970 / Carole and Joni: Early 1971–1972

  chapter twelve

  Carly: Mid-1970–Early 1973

  PART FIVE “WE JUST COME FROM SUCH DIFFERENT SETS OF CIRCUMSTANCE”

  chapter thirteen

  Carole: 1972–1984

  chapter fourteen

  Joni: 1972–1982

  chapter fifteen

  Carly: Late 1973–Late 1987

  PART SIX “IN THE RIVER I KNOW I WILL FIND THE KEY”

  coda

  The Middle ’80s to the Present: Three Women, Three Endings, One Journey

  Source Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Bibliography

  Discography

 

 

 


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