“Peace, Love and Rock n Roll!”: A Review of My Runaway Summer by Larry Schardt
(Year of the Book, 2022). ISBN: 978-1-646491-56-8 Larry Schardt, known and loved across the highways and byways of America for his mantra, “Peace, Love, and Rock ‘n’ Roll!” is an educator, motivational speaker, and champion of “Success that Rocks!” who has been motivating audiences for thirty-five years, thirty of which he has spent at the venerable home of the Nittany Lions, Pennsylvania State University. A prototypical Hippie—albeit in pressed shirt and neatly knotted tie instead of tie-dye—Larry runs writers’ retreats and is the author of the bestselling book James Conner: The Triumphs of a Football Hero , which BookAuthority voted amongst the top 25 all-time-best sports books ever written. My Runaway Summer , however, is not a sports biography. It is Larry’s poignantly personal, open, and passionate account of a memorable summer he spent in his early teens. I first met Larry “Rock ‘n’ Roll” Schardt at the WV Writers Conference in the summer of 2013. I was immediately ...