Noble Chaos

About the Book

Ryan Sterling is a nineteen-year-old college junior traversing a moral switchback in 1969 and 1970. He protests the Vietnam War while weighing patriotic implications. He loses passion for education while remaining on the Dean’s List. He defies authority while conforming to group pressure. He experiments with drugs while resisting dependency. He devours philosophy and psychology to find meaning in his raging confusion.

But conflict is the price of his search for understanding. Conflict carves rifts between Ryan, his peers and society. Conflict forces him to make game-changing choices.

Ryan’s odyssey includes a supporting cast of unforgettable characters. His quixotic lover shuns her self-indulgent past and makes the least expected confession. A calculating drug dealer squares off with Ryan’s nemesis, provoking a fatal consequence of intolerance. A traditionminded classmate transforms into a revolutionary and leads dangerous confrontations with armed authorities.

Set at the University of Kansas, one of the nation’s most radical colleges at that time, this astonishing story weaves emotional with historical truth. The novel shares a frank and shocking perspective of America’s jolting revolution against mainstream values… a bold reflection on the Vietnam War era from the university perspective.

Noble Chaos is an important and entertaining resource for those yearning for perspective about their youth. This uncensored story also gives young readers an emotional perspective of the chaotic forces that turned America upon itself while achieving noble social changes.

About the Author

Brent Green is a marketing communication strategist, creative director, copywriter, author, and trainer with focus on generational marketing. He is author of Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers: Perceptions, Principles, Practices, Predictions. He has been a community organizer throughout his academic and professional careers. During college in the late sixties and early seventies at the University of Kansas, he chaired the influential Student Advisory Committee. This vocal council challenged many unfashionable university traditions restricting student freedom and adult privileges. A Colorado resident since 1981, he has served in a leadership capacity with professional and public service organizations, including as board member for ten years and chairman of the Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau; board member for Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain, Inc.; and as programming chair for the Business Marketing Association and the Rocky Mountain Direct Marketing Association. He is the tenth recipient of the Direct Marketer of the Year award from the Rocky Mountain Direct Marketing Association. He has earned over 50 other marketing industry creative awards. His short story about alienation, entitled “Flight of Fancy,” received national recognition from Writer’s Digest. He received a similar accolade from Writer’s Digest for an essay entitled, “Baby Boomers at Mid-life: Coming of Age Revisited.” And again in 2009, Writer’s Digest recognized his magazine feature article entitled, “On Dad’s Passing.” He contributes to national online media such as Huffington Post; and his blog Boomers: A Trip into the Heart of the Baby Boomer Generation (http://boomers.typepad.com) achieves top search-engine performance for many online queries about the Boomer generation. An unpublished early version of Noble Chaos received a literary award for historical fiction from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers in the organization’s Colorado Gold writing competition.