LEAVING PORT MCHAIR combines the adventures of two men of the author’s acquaintance in the late 1960s in Washington, D.C. These were years of protest and a romantically imagined revolution that would transform America from bomb factory to dovecote. One man was a close friend who lived on a derelict fishing boat moored at the rundown Buzzard’s Point Marina on the Anacostia River. He shared his life with marina’s other tenants, like-minded water-hippies with their own punky boats that went nowhere. In the city’s Foggy Bottom area another friend, active in the radical student movement, was being cultivated by a  Marxist scholar.  The two “revolutionaries” are one in this story of an actual federal entrapment scheme.