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Title: Blinded Sight
Subtitle: Murder, Mayhem, Riot and Revolution-Ann Arbor in the 1960's
Author: Danny Bee
Narrator: Helen Cricco
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-01-14
Publisher: Daniel Lesher
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
In the late 1960s, Ann Arbor, Michigan was at the center of a series of brutal serial murders. Over the course of two years, seven young women would lose their lives.
At the same time, the city was experiencing a cultural overhaul that would turn the staid and conservative seat of Washtenaw County into a hotbed of radical ideas and practices that was creating a Mecca for the young citizens of the 1960s counter-culture, fueled by the drugs, a political awakening and a sexual revolution that would define the 1960s.
Among the key players in this local radicalization were John Sinclair and the White Panther Party, which the FBI called "potentially the largest and most dangerous of revolutionary organizations in the United States." Sinclair would be infamously sentenced to 9-10 years in a maximum security prison for possession of two joints, (marijuana cigarettes) and the White Panther Partys Minister of Defense would become the first of the 60s hippy radicals to be placed on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list.
Against this backdrop, the police thought that the murderer could be one of these drugged out weirdo's, but when he was finally caught...
Members Reviews:
really disorganized
I was not sure what the author was trying to convey, part history, part opinion, not really well written, and mixing in to many not related events in weird places in the book.
Frequent grammatical errors are a serious distraction from the content
I found the grammatical errors terribly distracting. Particularly frequent were possessives where there should have been plurals (panty's rather than panties) and plurals where there should have been possessives (the states rather than the state's). Pretty embarrassing to realize the author is a product of the Ann Arbor Public Schools. Way too much discussion about the effects of LSD.
REASONS FOR NOT GIVING THE BOOK MORE STARS///????
I AM SURE THAT I WOULD RATE IT 5 STARS BUT I FOR SOME REASON HAVE NOT BEEN DOING A LOT OF READING AND I HAVE YET TO FINNISH THIS BOOK BUT SO FAR AS I HAVE READ I AM FINDING OUT A LOT OFTHINGS I WAS UN AWARE PF THAT HAPPENED IN MY HOME STATE WHICH SADLY I HAD MOVED FROM TO THE SOUTH
Two Stars
Interesting for someone like myself that was living in Ann Arbor at that time.
Excellent Book!
Blinded Sight is the first book that I've reviewed on Amazon. It's also the first book that's dealt with people, places and times that I was a part of or aware of. I guess I should start by saying that I was unaware of the coed murders. I was an active participant in The Artist's Workshop and Translove Energies. Although I didn't follow the migration to Ann Arbor I stayed up on what was happening. My connections with the MC5 go back to high school in Lincoln Park.
Of course when you're that close, the little things claw at you. John Sinclair's mother was not a housewife but was a high school teacher, English I think, in Flint. Michael Moore was one of her students. The light shows were not made with water based dyes suspended in oil but oil based dyes suspended in water. I'm sure there's many more minor errors just as insignificant to the general thrust of the story. But the insights into The Artist's Workshop et al, and the people used to represent the counter culture are astonishingly right on.
A large part, if not all of the book comes from the public record.
