THE Village as sexual riot in 60s . . .

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. . . in new history of Greenwich V. reviewed in Wall St. Journal:

When the rats are eating the cats, something has gone wrong.

Reviewer Henry Allen opens:

The glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome, the Greenwich Village that was Greenwich Village: all gone.

The book:

The Village

By John Strausbaugh
Ecco, 624 pages, $29.99

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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