Most Popular Books by James Howard Kunstler

"''In the fall of 1967, a schlemiel named Don Bessemer from Short Pump, Virginia, got me pregnant. Well, okay, I got myself pregnant with his assistance. I fell for this superficial clod one rainy October afternoon when we were the only two patrons in a hole-in-the-wall called Cafae Ludovico off Astor Place...'' So begins the journey into adulthood of 19-year-old Erica "Pooh" (as in Winnie) Bollinger from Oyster Bay, Long Island. She''s a sophomore at NYU and nothing is working out there. She''s knocked up. She hates the city. The Vietnam War is making America crazy, not to mention the sit-com looniness of everyday existence on the home-front. Pooh desperately wants out. She hears about a magical place up in Vermont where you can leave all this crap behind, a commune called Sunrise Village founded by the mysterious, charismatic figure known in the hippie underground only as "Songbird." Maybe she ought to go up there and check the situation out..."--Back cover.

What happens when four guys confront the enormity of being thirty? If it’s Sandy Stern, he worries about the fact that he’s a down-and-out artist about to lose both his apartment and his girl. If it’s Joel Harlowe, a materialistic drug dealer, his charmed life in the fast lane is leading to a dead end. If it’s Edmund Black, he’s crushed by the weight of the past, seeking a precarious refuge in madness. And if it’s George Wells, he’s a waiter with a unfinished Ph.D., trying to cope with the impending death of his once powerful politician father. So when Joel Harlowe plans the biggest, most outrageous Halloween party ever to hit Excelsior Springs, New York, all hell breaks loose. A series of absurd and tragic events reveals each of these men’s most secret dreams, hopes and fears, and transforms his life in this once elegant upstate town. Four friend emerge from the illusions of youth to discover who ther really are in this unforgettable chronicle of life in a typical American town, 80s style James Howard Kunstler, author of five critically acclaimed novels, has created a masterfully drawn tragi-comic universe, poignant and devastating

"The Innocents" is a screenplay about the downfall of a Too-Big-To-Fail bankster set in Manhattan and an estate in rural Connecticut. The action centers on three teenagers and the malevolent family drama that parallels the financial wickedness on the Wall Street banking scene. A fast-moving, high velocity story with a big heart.

On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Walker and his botanist uncle, William, set out to search the southern wilderness for a live specimen of Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, and suffer kidnapping at the hands of pirates and torture by reds

Seventeen year-old Andy Newmark is having the time of his life, but the 1967 Summer of Love also brings with it some important lessons about growing up

Ten years after his reported death, rock star Byron Jaynes is discovered in a New England country store by ex-"Rolling Stone" reporter Rick Sears, who persuades Jaynes to recount his harrowing story

Grover Graff, a reporter who specializes in investigating religious cults, discovers a link between the scattered pieces of the body of his best friend and the Children of Abraham, one of the cults he has been investigating

La vision effrayante qu''a Kunstler d''un futur sans pétrole a attiré autant l''attention des écologistes que celle des dirigeants d''entreprises. Ses idées ont stimulé un vaste débat sur notre dépendance vis-à-vis des combustibles fossiles et de nos institutions financières et gouvernementales dysfonctionnelles. Depuis lors, Kunstler est devenu un commentateur incontournable de tout ce qui touche le futur. Dans "Too Much Magic L''Amérique désenchantée", Kunstler évalue ce qui a changé au cours des sept dernières années et nous montre que dans le monde d''après, balayé par la crise financière, ses idées n''ont jamais été aussi pertinentes. Dans "Too Much Magic L''Amérique désenchantée", Kunstler décrypte les brillantes visions du futur, telles que rêvées par des esprits excessivement optimistes qui pensent que la technologie résoudra tous nos problèmes. Leurs visions lui rappellent les voitures volantes et les robots domestiques qui étaient les images futuristes dominantes des années 1950. L''idée que se fait Kunstler du futur est beaucoup plus sobre : il analyse les diverses technologies (fermes verticales, fracturation hydraulique, éthanol de maïs) suggérées comme solutions immédiates à la crise énergétique et n''en trouve aucune qui puisse marcher à long terme pour guérir une société dépendante vis-à-vis des automobiles assoiffées d''essence, éprise d''un idéal inefficace de banlieues pavillonnaires, et refusant de changer fondamentalement son mode de vie énergivore. Kunstler propose également des idées concrètes quant à la manière dont nous pouvons favoriser notre adaptation à une société où le robinet de pétrole sera très vite à sec. Avec une grande clairvoyance et une vision pragmatique du monde, Kunstler soutient que le temps de la pensée magique et de l''attente de miracles est révolu et que le temps est venu de commencer à se préparer à une très longue crise.