Book Details:
Book Title: In the Daze of My Youth: A Memoir by Joshua Kraushar
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 160 pages
Genre:
Non-Fiction, Memoir
Publisher: Mascot Books
Release date: December 2022
Content Rating: PG-13 +
M: Parts of the book talk about illegal drug use
Book Description:
Hello! I’m Josh―and with the exception of friends, family, former
colleagues, and students, you don’t know me from Adam. This autobiography
is a down-to-earth, intimate memoir of my life, spanning the bulk of the
1950s through 1970s. Since I’m almost seventy now, my life today has zero
resemblance to that of the person I’ve written about. The drugs I partake
in today, like Lipitor and Flomax, don’t seem to be as much fun as acid
and mescaline were many decades ago. Nonetheless, my memories of youth are
vivid and amusing. Many of the vignettes that I have incorporated into the
book are true-to-life anecdotes that I have related over the years at
dinner parties to amuse my friends. Having taught high school for
thirty-five years following the events of this book, I intentionally
neglected to relate any of the stories to my students knowing full well
that I would be fired on the spot. Since I am now very happily retired, I
have absolutely no fear of retribution from irate parents or Board of
Education members. In the Daze of My Youth traces my life from good Jewish boy to New York City checker cab
driver to degenerate druggie to world traveler. Even though I’m a happily
married dad with grown children who are infinitely more responsible than
I’ll ever be, I sometimes still feel like the wild man I was many years
ago . . .
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Meet the Author:
Joshua Kraushar is a former history teacher, cab driver, and New York City
tour guide. He received numerous awards during his 35-year career in
education, including New Jersey Humanities Teacher of the Year. He was
inspired to tell the story of his formative years by friends who
generally found his anecdotes related to taxi driving and world travel
to be compelling and particularly funny. He also wishes to give anyone
who was born during the last forty years a good sense of what it was
like to grow up in the ’60s and ’70s and to freak out his former
students who assumed he was reasonably sane. Joshua and his wife Terri
currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with their incredibly hairy
golden retriever, Khaleesi, and are the parents of two sons, Jeremy and
Zack.
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