Trouble: A Seventies Memoir

In this raucous coming-of-age memoir, Jack Livingston chronicles his life among a group of spirited young midwestern counter-culture outsiders during the tumultuous early 1970s when the country was divided over civil rights, an unjust war, and a criminal president. 

At age sixteen, the author filed a lawsuit against his high school after they suspended him based on a new dress code that prohibited long hair on boys. Livingston’s life changed drastically as the case went through the courts. 

Enthralled with the local rough-and-tumble street scene in the nearby factory city of Aurora, Illinois, the author left home to seek meaning and creative purpose. Over the next few years, he discovered more than he bargained for.

Author: Jack Livingston
Publisher: Baltimore Art Worker Press
Pages: 120pp
Size: 5.25 x 8
Notes: paperback
Release Date: May 2025