02552cam a2200397 i 4500 623568490 TxAuBib 20201218120000.0 201202s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316429139 large print; paperback 0316429139 large print; paperback (OCoLC)1225150694 OCO OCO eng eng rda rda OCO rda PX0 rda OCO OCLCO GK8 OCLCO TxAuBib PX0 OCLCO GK8 OCLCO TxAuBib rda Patterson, James, 1947-, author. The Last Days of John Lennon / By James Patterson, with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. xi, 564 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-562). "John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared for their safety. "You might as well put a target on me," Lennon said, and the Nixon administration complied by opening an FBI file. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focused on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever-growing obsession with his onetime idol. Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety he craved by actualizing the target on Lennon -- single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation."--Publisher's description. 20201218. Lennon, John 1940-1980. Lennon, John 1940-1980. Assassination. Lennon, John 1940-1980. Death and burial. Chapman, Mark David. Rock musicians England Biography. Rock musicians United States. Large print books. lcgft Biographies. lcgft Wedge, Dave, author. Sherman, Casey, 1969-, author. TXKPL