Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Book One: I’m Going to Say It Now
1. Boy in Ohio
2. The Singing Socialists
3. Bound for Glory
4. What’s That I Hear?
5. I Ain’t Marching Anymore
6. Changes
7. The War Is Over
8. Pleasures of the Harbor
9. Tape from California
Book Two: Critic of the Dawn
10. Chicago
11. Rehearsals for Retirement
12. Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
13. Travels and Travails
14. Here’s to the Sate of Richard Nixon
15. An Evening with Salvador Allende
16. The Downhill Slide
17. Train
18. No More Songs
Afterword
Source Notes
Selected Discography
Index

About the Author

Michael Schumacher has written seventeen books, including, most recently, The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul (Minnesota, 2018) and First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (Minnesota, 2017). He lives in Wisconsin.

Reviews

"A riveting, colorful, and anecdote-rich tale, well researched and finely told."—Boston Globe"Schumacher keeps his eye on the main theme: Phil Ochs wanted to sing the truth."—Chicago Tribune"Through extensive interviews with Ochs's family members, friends and business associates, Schumacher constructs a balanced portrait of the musician's brief but eventful life."—Publishers Weekly"There But for Fortune intensely studies the burgeoning—and surprisingly competitive—‘60s folk scene and Ochs’ place in it. In revisiting the societal and political tumult of the period, following Ochs to the deep South for an education in the Civil Rights Movement and detailing his involvement in the anti-war movement, Schumacher employs the zeal of a journalist searching for the truth and a historian’s passion for the subject matter."—Elmore Magazine