Rude Awakening in 1969 : Integrity Communications : 9780966395136 : 0966395131 : 14 Jun 2017 : 1969 was a year unlike any other. In fact, if a writer fashioned together the events of that year into a novel it would have come across as totally unbelievable. However, what took place was real and the world changed as a result. Rude Awakening in 1969 is an epic adventure with this remarkable year as the backdrop. Ordinary and not-so-ordinary individuals lived their lives and had their adventures amid the consequential events that took place at the end of a decade. The tale begins in 1963 with a disaster at sea that portends future events. As 1969 unfolds, a malicious wide-reaching peril comes into focus and the evil men, and women, are capable of demonstrated. Little by little the picture develops. Concurrent with this a newspaper reporter and Japanese American female New York City detective find themselves tangled up in a rapidly changing America. Then witness a hippie, street punk, and y