1968 A Love Story Author:John Edison Schwab The year is 1968: the year of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, campus protests and the Vietnam War. Douglas Holland is the only son of a lower-class Jewish family in sprawling, frenetic Los Angeles, and a recent college graduate. Doug has no trouble getting dates, but the ultra-sophisticated L.A. women repel him. He longs for a beautifu... more »l, sunny, more conservative young woman as his life's partner. So he impulsively grabs a rural Midwestern college scholarship, in a last-ditch attempt to escape the madness of Los Angeles and the shallowness of L.A. women. But he never imagined what he would find in tiny Athens, Ohio. Classically beautiful and Christian, Paige Howard, an entering freshman from a small Ohio town, is decidedly upper-class. Paige desires someone sincere as well as attractive -- different from immature young men wanting backseat sex. But Paige is a sorority girl with a predetermined set of values and ideas. -- Enter Doug. On meeting, Doug and Paige discover that, despite considerable differences, what they have been so fervently seeking is each other. But trouble brews. It is Doug's idealism and stubborn unwillingness to compromise that dooms the relationship. When Paige rejects him, Doug's anguish is so great he volunteers for suicidal duty in Vietnam. Paige, unaware, comes to realize she has made a terrible mistake. Is she too late to stop him?? The thrilling climax provides the answer.« less