Tales of America, 1988

Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government sentiment, freedom.

Amid the tides of the late 1980s, a country boy from the Rust Belt

struggles to press forward just as the door to upward mobility is about to close.

College, Silicon Valley, startups, HP, Apple, Microsoft.

To become part of the 1%, or even the 0.1%, he gave up a lot and gained a lot.