FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
December, 2005
Prelude to Intimacy by
Ira Einhorn
is the activist and dynamic thinker’s account of his
life underground from the time he fled the United States
in 1981 until he met his wife in 1987, written from his
prison cell in Gradinan, just north of Bordeaux, in just
18 days. The book is full of the immediacy of his
feeling that he would shortly be returned to the United
States.
While reflecting upon his role in the consciousness
movement in the 1960s and 70s, Einhorn has many
observations about the direction American and European
cultures have taken since the sixties. He writes:
“Consider this: 90% of American families are described
as being dysfunctional; over 50% of marriages fail; the
incidence and prevalence of stress-related illnesses are
growing exponentially; job security is a dream of the
past; sexuality, one of the major forms of release
available to contemporary city-dwellers, who are cut off
from trees, grass, and bird-song, is now fraught with
peril and ringed round with the odor of death; child
abuse is endemic; pedophilia is on the rampage;
destructive substances are available anywhere and
everywhere there is money to pay for them; teenage crime
is a growth industry (think on the sad case of Malcolm
X’s grandson), and perhaps worst of all, teenage
suicide, a devastating response to this spreading
illness of infinite consumption, grows by leaps and
bounds. A
long list that adds up to total fragmentation and a
continually increasing stress on every one of us no
matter how rich we may be and how protected we feel.
That is the problem that clearly links my struggles to
the common experience, extreme though my situation may
seem.”
Adding to the mix,
Prelude…
also includes a marvelously
sensuous account of the many women he loved in Ireland
and Formentera while on the run.
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In a letter to readers,
Einhorn
emphatically states, “I did NOT kill Holly Maddux,” and
in the Epilogue he presents a compelling case that he’s
telling the truth. Though Maddux’s body was “found” in a
trunk in Einhorn’s closet, there was no blood in the
body or the trunk, and no traces of blood whatsoever
could be found in his apartment, despite the fact that
she was allegedly bludgeoned there. There were no
witnesses to the murder, nor of him transporting the
body, nor any real proof that Einhorn killed the woman
he loved. All the evidence, weak as it was, was
circumstantial. Statements that Holly had been seen
after she was supposed to have been killed were
suppressed. Usually, if the evidence does not fit, the
jury must acquit. Yet despite glaring holes in the
government’s case, Einhorn is serving a life sentence.
Einhorn's friend from the 60s and Prelude…editor
and annotator,
James Sorrells,
Ph.D., writes: "Ira told his many friends in the 1960s
that some day he might be framed for something and/or
killed because he knew too much about the intrigues of
the CIA, FBI, and Defense Department.” As noted above,
his case goes back to court on appeal Friday, September
23, 2005.
Prelude to
Intimacy is about 200 pages, including an
introduction by Sorrells. For order, format and
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through
Sorrells.
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