About this ebook
Fourteen young women speak here in their own words, without editorial interruption. They are students navigating the collision between the lives their parents imagined for them and the world they inherited: a counterculture in full bloom, with all the freedom, confusion, alcohol, drugs, and sexual experimentation that came with it. These are not cautionary tales, and they are not celebrations. They are honest accounts of what it felt like to come of age at one of the most turbulent moments in American history.
Together, Girls on the Campus and its companion volume, The Girls in the Office, form a remarkable two-part social portrait: the women as students, then a decade later as working professionals. Read side by side, they document one of the most significant shifts in American women's lives in the twentieth century.
As with his celebrated true crime work, Olsen brings deep research, genuine compassion, and an instinct for telling detail to a world most journalists of his era observed from a comfortable distance. He didn't observe from a distance. He listened.
About the author
Jack Olsen is the author of thirty-three books, published in fifteen countries. Olsen’s journalism earned the National Headliners Award, Chicago Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award, commendations from Columbia and Indiana Universities, the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Scripps-Howard Award as well as other honors. Olsen was described as “the dean of true crime authors” by the Washington Post and the New York Daily News and “the master of true crime” by the Detroit Free Press and Newsday. Publishers Weekly called him “the best true crime writer around.” His studies of crime are required reading in university criminology courses. In a page-one review, the New York Times described his work as “a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike.” Olsen is a two-time winner in the Best Fact Crime category of the Mystery Writer’s of America, Edgar award.
