Starfish - Breaking Free : A Young Man's Odyssey in Time & Space

"Breaking away, piece by piece, from the comfortable insularity of small-town America in, the deeply patriotic principal of this story is jarred to discover an unfamiliar world, one that is anything like his midwestern hometown. Labor troubles at home, his Naval experience, and his growing awareness of a racial divide at home cause him to reconsider the country he thought he knew and his place in it. He concludes he can no longer remain the silent son of a generation, a silence amplified by the comfort he knew as a boy. His witness of a thermonuclear explosion convinces him he can no longer play a realistic role in nuclear Armageddon, no longer a cog in the gears of questionable militarism, and do something to return the country to its values."--Amazon.com