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As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley
Chapter 2: Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats
Chapter 3: The Continued Reception of the Beats
Chapter 4: From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary
Chapter 5: The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey
Chapter 6: The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism
Chapter 7: The Magic in the Music
Chapter 8: California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury
Chapter 9: Spreading the Word: Alternative Media
Chapter 10: People of the Book
Chapter 11: From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love
Chapter 12: The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems
Chapter 13: Alternative Living
Chapter 14: From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution
Chapter 15: Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands
Chapter 16: COINTELPRO and the Millennium
Chapter 17: The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse
Chapter 18: The Not So Slow Fade
Chapter 19: It's All Over Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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A professor emeritus of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, Robert C. Cottrell is the author of more than twenty books, including studies of the counterculture, the year 1968, American radicalism, black baseball and the World War II smokejumpers.
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As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies.
