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The Road to Woodstock
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Michael Lang |
August 15, 1969. Richie Havens, the first act of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, takes the stage and welcomes a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm—which is q… |
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Season of the witch
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David Talbot |
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped… |
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Lost at sea
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Jon Ronson |
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers.… |
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Any day now
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Terry Bisson |
A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the emerging radicalized culture of the 1960s throughout the eastern United States serves as a commentary on the nation as experienced by members of … |
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After Woodstock
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Elliot Tiber |
During the summer of 69, Elliot Tiber helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber s life did… |
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Beat
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Christopher Felver |
A collection of images, text, ephemera, artifacts, and reminiscence celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the men and women known as the Beat Generation. Spotlighted are Hunter S. Thom… |
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Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats
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Peter Doyle,Iain McIntyre,Andrew Nette |
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowe… |
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Woodstock
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Evans, Mike,Paul Kingsbury |
August 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival. This volume offers a day-by-day, act-by-act account of events on Yasgur's Farm, including interviews and quotes from those w… |
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Make it a green peace!
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Frank S. Zelko |
"The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and ta… |
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Another little piece of my heart
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Goldstein, Richard |
"In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein approached The Village Voice with a novel idea. "I want to be a rock critic," he said. "What's that?" the editor replied. It was a logical question,… |
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Chimpanzee
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Darin Bradley |
A high level of unemployment has destroyed the economy, resulting in record student loan defaults. In this dystopian landscape, the government has developed a method of taking back the knowledge gai… |
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Heads
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Jarnow, Jesse (Music journalist) |
The history of psychedelic drug counterculture, beginning in the 1950s when the drugs were a promising psychological treatment through their hippie heyday and up to modern day usage. The essential hi… |
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Révolte consommée
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Heath, Joseph |
"Dans un savant mélange de fines observations sociologiques, de philosophie et de culture populaire, Heath et Potter s'interrogent sur les mécanismes régissant le développement de la contre-culture, … |
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Benson's house
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John Milner |
"The 1864 art debut of Sarah Taggart Benson's spurred wide acclaim among New York society. Many thought a woman artist would not be taken seriously, but her popularity grew, spawning an insurrection … |
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News Dissector
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Danny Schechter |
"News Dissector brings together Danny Schechter's writings on human rights, politics, and the media over a span of four decades of activism and reporting: this includes his experiences with radio new… |
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Borg like me & other tales of art, eros, and embedded systems
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Gareth Branwyn |
"A comprehensive collection of cyberculture pioneer Gareth Branwyn's best work, Borg Like Me spans an over 30 year writing career. The book covers Branwyn's coming of age in a hippie commune, his inv… |
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From counterculture to cyberculture
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Fred Turner |
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial c… |
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Alice Macleod, realist at last
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Susan Juby |
Sixteen-year-old Alice uses her screen-writing aspirations to help her get through a challenging period in her life after her boyfriend goes to Scotland, her mother is jailed for environmental activi… |
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Little Brother
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Cory Doctorow |
Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held be the Department of Homland Security for days befor… |
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
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Don Lattin |
This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives… |
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