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14 reviews
Catherine James

St. Martin's Press, 2007

Couldn't put this book down!
This is my first book review and I decided to write a little something because this book made me feel so happy, and I think it will make someone else happy too.I have been reading many books on LA rock early 1970's, and then I came upon this little TREASURE. It captured me immediately, and I really hope that Catherine will write another book, because she brought joy to me, and through the thick ...

Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture

20 reviews
Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter

Collins, 2005

Interesting and eye opening read
I've never been an anti-consumer/culture jammer so I wasn't really offended by the book's dismantling of the "Rebellion" thought process. It was very interesting how they picked apart the anti-capitalist mentality. One of the main points the authors make, is that no matter what we do as consumers, we feed capitalism. There really is no escape. Everything we do, eat and purchase drives ...

Beautiful Losers

5 reviews
Aaron Rose, Christian Strike, ...

D.A.P./Iconoclast, 2005

Great pictures, great read
Its definately worth $25.17, or whatever price theyve stuck on it by now. Its includes pictures of, and interesting stories about a few of the Beautiful Losers aswell as full pages of artwork (in color). Its no picture book either, in addition to the stories, its got the histories of various subcultures that influenced the artists (skateboarding, graffiti, etc.) So it'll keep you busy for a ...

The Haight-Ashbury: A History

11 reviews
Charles Perry

Wenner, 2005

The 60ies unfolding before your eyes
What a great book! I got it because i wanted to explore how the whole hippie movement started and how it evolved (and eventually collapsed). This book is just perfect for that! The author has done a great job researching the era and presenting detailed stories and nice pictures. He also mentions various other historical milestones in the course of events in order to put the whole story in ...

Sway: A Novel

10 reviews
Zachary Lazar

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Like nothing you've ever read before
"Sway" is amazing. It is an assault on the senses, with swirling visuals and throbbing music. The writing is full of beautiful, unusual, shocking descriptions. Through Lazar's artistry, public figures become fictional characters. Even with all we know about Mick, Keith, Brian (Jones), Kenneth Anger and Charlie (Manson), the book convincingly creates new personas for them. The dread of the scenes ...

The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7 : Christian Counter-Culture)

9 reviews
John R. W. Stott

InterVarsity Press, 1985

Very practical exposition of the Sermon
I am preaching through the beatitudes right now, and next year, I plan on preaching through the rest of the Sermon on the Mount. I already had all the heavy duty technical books on this section of the Bible. So I really needed a book where the writer explained the text in a way that people could understand it. Stott's book fills that void. He masterfully explains and applies the text to life, ...

The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

16 reviews
Thomas Frank

University Of Chicago Press, 1998

Great Book
An excellent examination of consumer culture and the way that corporate America has tried to deal with, understand, and co-opt youth culture (or did youth culture co-opt advertising?) Frank gets to the bottom of it all in an always entertaining look at advertising from the Madison Avenue years through the sixties. His examinations of various ad campaigns - such as Volvo who insisted in their ads ...

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

122 reviews
Chuck Klosterman

Scribner, 2004

Fun in the Sun
Readers who take Chuck Klosterman at his word will have a hard time with this one. Those who can appreciate some hardcore tongue-in-cheekiness, however, will be rewarded with a highly entertaining collection of essays on a myriad of subjects. Does Klosterman overreach? Of course. Is it savvy, entertaining, and thought-provoking? Definitely.

Truancy (Tom Doherty Associates Book)

3 reviews
Isamu Fukui

Tor Teen, 2008

Mindful of Huxley's Big Brother and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall"
The Mayor rules the city through the subtle use of the Bureaucracy starting with students whose minds and behavior are shaped to the mayor's ideal of perfection. Every pupil is brainwashed until as adults they do the same things to their offspring who are students. This has led to a totalitarian society in which the Enforcers make sure the students follow the rules; those who fail to conform ...

Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture

8 reviews
Robert A. Roskind

Do It Yourself, 2002

Wish I was born to live those times!
First I want to say "Thank you" to Mr. Roskind for giving us such a great work that shows and teaches the children of your generation what it means to be truely free. Roskind takes you on an adventure that so many wish they could have taken, had we been born in time. ('71 for me) Eventhough he isn't preechy in his ideas of freedom and spirituality the reader cant help but take away what the ...

The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the ...

10 reviews
Chelsea Cain

Chronicle Books, 2004

Young Hippie
I am just 19 but everyone I've ever met said I was a "left-behind hippie" so when I seen this book on Amazon I just thought to myself "if I really am a "left-behind hippie" then I should probably have the Hippie Handbook." That only made perfect since to me, so I bought it and I LOVE IT!!! Now I really can be a "left-behind hippie"! Ha! Ha! Thank you!

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

2 reviews

Basic Books, 2004

Must have for anyone interested in American poetry from the last 50 years
I have a love hate relationship involving this book. I LOVE this book it is one of the only places you can find D.A. Levy's poems. I HATE myself because I have lost it 3 times and I am now on my fourth copy. But this book is great enough where I will buy 4 copies ($65.88) just so i can not be long with out it. It is in my backpack it is on my nightstand. This has given me great perspective ...

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital ...

6 reviews
Fred Turner

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

An excellent record of an amazing life
Stewart Brand is a high-IQ Zelig, who has been a catalyst of so many important developments throughout the last 4 decades of the 20th century. This volume is more scholarly, and more revealing of the social forces at work, than Markoff's What the Dormouse Said. It focuses with great intensity on Brand, due to Turner's unique access to Brand's diaries in the Stanford Library. SB is shown to have ...

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love: From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture

4 reviews
Stewart Tendler, David May

Cyan Communications, 2007

Unbelievable
Herein are fantastic accounts about things that only could have happened in the 1960's. A hippie mafia mass-produces LSD and they smuggle hashish from Afghanistan in an old car. These guys did some mind-boggling things until they could no longer keep things together. Mr. Tendler did a FINE job with the research here! He left no stone uncovered in digging up the facts on The Brotherhood of Eternal ...

1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation

6 reviews
Charles Kaiser

Grove Press, 1997

A great look @ 1968, the year that shaped the generation
This book gives a great outline of 1968-- specifically the antiwar movement at Columbia University starting on April 23, 1968. This was my primary reason for buying the book, and for this, it was well worth it. A lot of ground is covered in the book, and I found all of it intresting-- the Vietnam war (Tet Offensive), history of music, LBJ... 1968 In America will prove very enjoyable to anyone who ...

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

28 reviews
John Markoff

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

PREHISTORIC!
If you are a student of the history of the personal computer, this is a fantastic exploration of the PC's "prehistory." Very readable and very informative. Full of the oddball characters one would expect to find in the San Francisco Bay area of the time. I don't think, however, that the author achieves his goal of showing how the sixties counterculture shaped the computer industry, other than ...

The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman

7 reviews
Robert Altman

Santa Monica Press, 2007

Belly Dance Hippie Heritage
When I look at The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman, I see exactly where I come from and feel full of hippie heritage pride. I'm not just speaking figuratively -- I'm talking literally, turn to page 23, and there I am, in utero - front and center. Maybe you won't see me without your ultrasound spectacles, but I see me immediately, because I've carried around a framed original print of this ...

Leaving New Buffalo Commune (Counterculture Series)

1 review
Arthur Kopecky

University of New Mexico Press, 2006

ONE OF A KIND! DON'T MISS IT!
At the Bolinas commune, I couldn't figure out why Arthur Kopecky was under the covers with a flashlight every night writing in his diary when everyone else was sound asleep. A couple years later when I caught up with him at New Buffalo, he was still at it. As the decades passed, I wondered if anything ever came of it. In 2004, I googled the recently published *New Buffalo, Journals of a Taos ...

The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the ...

7 reviews
Adam Gorightly, Robert Anton Wilson

Paraview Press, 2003

Kerry the Sin Eater
If there ever was a perennial scapegoat of the 60's counterculture it would have to be Kerry Thornley, one of the founding members of the patently anarchist Discordian Society. With a kind of insurrectionary bravado, he took it upon himself to sponge up the sordid projections of the Military Industrial Mafia Complex as well those from the plethora of intelligence revenants who trailed and ...

Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots

9 reviews
Rod Dreher

Three Rivers Press, 2006

I found my voice
As a lifelong conservative Republican growing tired of the way the Republican party views money as the chief end of man, I was so refreshed to read Dreher. I found myself thinking, "I'm not alone." Even though I don't agree with all he says, the book forces the reader to confront ideas and to not simply accept the things the way they are.

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