New Book Chronicles the Amazing Journey of a Young Activist in the 1960s and 1970s
SANTA FE, N.M., Aug. 26, 2009 — “My childhood was different from most,” writes Karen Boutilier Kendall in her new memoir, “Berkeley to Beijing: The Journey of a Young Activist” (published by iUniverse). “I lived, breathed and experienced history in a way that exposed me to amazing, fascinating and sometimes frightening situations.”
Raised in California during the 1960s, Kendall, a preacher’s daughter, recalls a unique upbringing living in communal strike houses with volunteer strike workers, runaways and prostitutes. Her playmates and babysitters were the children of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers. “While other kids drew in coloring books, I walked picket lines and civil rights and anti-war protest marches,” she recalls.
In 1973, at age 12, Kendall received a call from actress Shirley MacLaine inviting her to travel with a group of women to China. Kendall had met MacLaine a year before while campaigning for George McGovern. The group, The First American Women’s Friendship Delegation, was among the first group to travel to communist China since the early 1950s. The resulting documentary of the group’s trip was nominated for an Academy Award.
Follow Kendall’s extraordinary, unique, life-altering experiences up through the age of 14 as she makes an amazing journey from Berkeley to Beijing.
Karen Boutilier Kendall currently lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She is the business operations manager for the Los Alamos County Utilities Department and will celebrate her 30th wedding anniversary this summer.
For more information, please visit http://www.kbkendall.com.
“Berkeley to Beijing: The Journey of a Young Activist”
Available from: http://www.iUniverse.com, http://www.bn.com, and http://www.amazon.com
ISBN: 9781440141300 – 6 x 9 – Paperback – 212 pages – $17.95
ISBN: 9781440141317 – 6 x 9 – Hardcover – 212 pages – $27.95
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