Sept. 6, 2022
John talks about talking to Lewis Chester
This week’s episode of The Musical Innertube has special meaning for me. I read American Melodrama around 1970 or so; my dad got me to read it. It’s an amazing, magisterial account of the events of 1968, beautifully written from a non-American POV. So I reached out to Lewis Chester, the book’s last surviving co-author, and we had a wonderful talk. Hope you enjoy — a remembrance of history from one who was there!
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