The Burning of Desire is an intimate and dramatic rendering of life in the United States, 1943 to 2013. It follows one man's journey through political, cultural and social upheaval and the pervasive influences of television, film, books, sports, art, popular music, grand ideas, sexual confusion and drugs- everything that turned the life. It is the autobiography of a generation, not only because it is an honest witness to the country during these years, but because it illumines how one soul, in spite of these influences and because of them, finds its way to fulfillment, wisdom and peace.
The pivotal moment of the life occurs center stage at the defining political assassination of the century.
Paradise: Book One of The Burning of Desire depicts the years of childhood innocence, 1943- 1960, as seen through the eyes of the realized man.
