Goodbye Elgin High is a parallel story of growing up in Elgin, Ill. in the turbulent 1960s and the rise, maturation and diminution of an insular Midwestern city once known worldwide for the production of fine wrist and pocket watches. The book puts readers squarely in the 1960s through more than two dozen photographs of the city, lists of the top movies, television programs, records and world events during 1965-68, the approximate period covered in...