Rock Me On the Water

Rock Me On the Water by Ronald Brownstein

The year 1974 was a tumultuous, if not a transitional, year in modern history. The Watergate scandal was spreading like wildfire and ended up scorching Richard Nixon’s presidency. Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a fringe militant group called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). North America was recovering from an energy crisis that arose…