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ISBN: 0-7570-0293-5
Length: 296 Pages
Size: 6 X
9-inch
Format: Hardback
Category: Autobiography / Entertainment
Price: $24.95
US / $29.95 CAN
Availability: In Print
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Before there was a Woodstock Concert, there
was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New
York hotel, the El Monaco. It wasn't easy. The Jewish clientele
who had returned to the Catskills year after year had discovered
Florida, and the upstate hotel business was dying.
To save his family's livelihood, Elliot put
on plays, musicals, and local festivals. In the process, Elliot
became the area's official issuer of event permits--not that anybody
else wanted that position. Elliot even worked weekends as an interior
design artist in New York City, all in the hopes of helping his
family.
In the summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber's life changed
in a way he never could have foreseen. Greenwich Village had become
the mecca for gays in America. There, Elliot had socialized with
the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol, and
a talented young photographer named Robert Maplethorpe, and yet
had managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then
on Friday, June 27, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Inn--and witnessed
the riot that would galvanize the gay movement in the United States.
And on July 17, when Elliot read that the Woodstock Concert promoters
had lost their license to stage the show in Wallkill, he called
to offer his help in finding a new venue. In the days that followed,
Elliot found himself swept up in a vortex that would change his
life forever.
The events that unfolded during that hot New
York summer have come to be recognized as major turning points in
our cultural history. Few, however, have enjoyed Elliot Tiber's
unique view of those events. Taking Woodstock is the funny,
touching, and true story of the man who enabled Woodstock to take
place. It is also the personal story of one man who took stock of
his life, his lifestyle, and his future. In short, Taking Woodstock
is like no history of Woodstock you have ever read.
Elliot
Tiber has been a professional creative writer for over thirty-five
years. He has written and produced numerous award-winning plays
and musical comedies for the theater, television, and films around
the world. He was also dramaturge for the National Theater of Belgium.
He was a semi-finalist in the Academy Awards for best film. As a
professor of comedy writing and performance, he has taught at the
New School University and Hunter College (CUNY) in New York City.
Mr. Tiber is also a best-selling
author. His first novel, Rue Haute, was an instant bestseller
in Europe, and was published in the US as an Avon Paperback under
its English title, High Street. As a humorist, Elliot Tiber
has appeared on CNN, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and 20/20, as well as on television
shows in France, England, Tokyo, Moscow, and Berlin. Tiber has also
performed his standup one-man show, Woodstock Daddy, for clubs,
theaters, and TV. He currently resides in both New York City and
California.
Tom
Monte has written more than 30 books and many hundreds of
articles for such magazines and newspapers as Life, Saturday
Evening Post, Natural Health, and the Chicago Tribune.
Among his many works are The Way of Hope, about the AIDS
crisis in New York City. Tom is also the co-author with Dr. Anthony
Sattilaro of the best-selling books Recalled By Life (Houghton
Mifflin, 1982) and Living Well Naturally (Houghton Mifflin,
1984).
For the past twenty years, Tom
has lectured and provided workshops on healing and personal transformation
throughout the United States and Europe, including the University
of Massachusetts and Yale University. In May 2005, he was the keynote
speaker for the American Cancer Society's Living With Cancer Conference
in Augusta, Maine. He and his wife, Toby, live in Massachusetts
and are the parents of three adult children.
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