Noble Chaos

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Brent Green

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When the World War II baby boom generation reminisces about its time of ?arrogant naïveté,? daydreams often rush back thirty-one years to 1969, that most challenging final year of the sixties, that odd juxtaposition of numerals representing sexual freedom and experimentation. Ryan Sterling is a nineteen-year-old college junior, and he traverses a moral switchback. He withdraws from education while managing to remain on the dean?s list: he defies authority while conforming to peer pressure: and he consumes drugs while resisting dependency on psychoactive chemicals. After seeking the safety of a steady relationship, he explores sexual promiscuity. He protests the Vietnam War while questioning patriotic implications. He devours philosophy, psychology and literature to add meaning to his raging confusion. But conflict is the price of his odyssey. Conflict carves rifts between Ryan, his peers and society. Noble Chaos is an important resource for those who must now let go of youth and accept indisputable middle age ? 12,000 baby boomers every day. This novel helps readers understand the powerful and often opposing personalities that turned America upon itself ? 6 clashing with 9.