In this episode 232, we visit with Frye Gaillard, the award-winning author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960’s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost, a reconstruction and remembrance of the transcendent era of the 1960’s.

Gaillard explores tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times, from civil rights to Black power, feminism, and the Vietnam war protests, as well as the arts, literature, science, and religion.

Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize had this to say about the book, “A child of the Sixties and one of the leading civil rights reporters of his generation, Frye Gaillard has given us a riveting tour along what he calls the fine line between history and journalism… A Hard Rain is essential reading for a time when an American president has willfully ignored the hard-earned lessons from our passage through the most tumultuous decade of social change since the Civil War.”