The Wild Years

by Dwight Worker

These are a series of autobiographical stories about coming of age, the civil rights and anti-war movements. While leaving to Canada with false IDs, the author stopped by northern New Mexico, looking for peace and safety. He found a very different world, filled with surreal dropouts living more wild and dangerously than he would ever have dreamed. With no law to turn to, he had to deal with these outlaws on his own. What had he gotten himself into?

252 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2013

About the author

An American professor, activist, adventurer, and still a fugitive. He escaped from the Mexican penitentiary Palacio de Lecumberri in 1975. Afterward, he wrote the book Escape From Lecumberri. The movie Escape was adapted from this book.

Throughout his life he participated in civil rights, anti-war, and environmental movements. In 1991, Dwight volunteered to serve in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society where he worked against illegal drift netting and whaling.

Worker is a former professor at Indiana University, where he created the Information Security program for the Kelley School of Business before retiring to farm, write, and travel.

Reviews

[Patricia Ricketts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read!

If you have any interest in the counterculture that developed around the time of the Vietnam war then this is the book for you. The author gives a true depiction of growing up in a small town, going off to college, protesting the war, resisting the draft, and trying to escape the clutches of the U.S. government. This is a well written book that will give the reader some perspective on a very different time in American history.

[m. jae' gilkerson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Wild Years: These tales from a not so innocent 1960

I liked this book except I got real tired of the rank language
I grew up in the 1960`s. I enjoyed the first part the most. It reminded me of some of the things my brother and I did as children.