Emmy award-winning actor, writer and producer introduces his new book 'Chasing America' ! Dennis Watlington’s Chasing America is a rollercoaster ride through promise and poverty, affirmative action and addiction – a powerful story that captures a life and an era that is seminally American.
Born in Harlem in 1952, Dennis Watlington has been walking a tightrope his entire life.
At the age of 14, after bouncing in and out of various schools, Dennis got addicted to heroin.
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.