P-related book recommendation, non-fiction

[Mark Kohut]

The book is entitled 1973 Nervous Breakdown by one Andreas Killen,
an assistant professor of history at CCNY. Published in 2006.

His thesis might be described as Round About 1973, the changes
happening under the radar/rose? in America surfaced. 

His beat here is attempted cultural history; artistic touchstones that captured 
what he sees, that he thinks, should last:
 he uses art--Warhol [the subtitle is Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of 
Post-Sixties America], movies,--
BADLANDS, others;  writers such as DeLillo and including, still, our favorite 
writer on this list.

I have quoted a few tidbits from it previously, but I have just finished his 
chapter called Power Shift
in which he uses Kirkpatrick Sales' book of that name, knowing he is Pynchon's 
friend
 and does a two-page essay on the prescience of "The Crying of Lot 49". He 
thinks San Narcisco
is modeled on Irvine, California...and that 'hieroglyphic sense of concealed 
meaning" can be seen
as prescient paranoia---prefiguring GR, of course---and ends quoting Californian 
Carey McWilliams,
editor of The Nation then who felt compelled to defend California against the 
"libelous notion"..that
the roots of Watergate..were watered in Southern California, Orange County in 
particular. 

Misc. I found this book for $1 in a sale dump bin in a Dollar store. Published 
to little attention, I think, I can
see how it ended up a peanuts remainder.......