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The Ballad of Cadillac Dave: A Saga of Journalism, Drugs & Redemption

Courtesy John Wheeler
By Rich Bailey
The Pulse | March 7, 2013
If you took all the histories and memoirs ever published about Chattanooga and brought them all together in one hypothetical and impossibly complete library, not only would the "Cadillac Dave" books include one of the only first-hand accounts of 1960's campus radicalism at the University of Chattanooga, they would surely be the only history or memoir to be cross-referenced in both the "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" and "Religion" categories.
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