Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. by Torgoff, Martin - 2004.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition, First Printing Hardcover 8vo (6-1/2 x 9-1/2), 545 pp including Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Book is FINE -- Unread, Unmarked (other than small remainder mark on bottom page block) and AS NEW in AS NEW pictorial DJ. (h) Traces the elements and evolution since the end of WWII, of the "Smoke this" "Snort this" "Here try this" reality. The Beats, the post-war jazz scene, all conducted in the shadows until the 60's when it was right out in the open for everyone to see. They say that if you were really there, you can't remember it. In which case, you need to read this book and find old friends. And if you weren't there, you need to read this book to understand how it all got from there to here. Well researched and well written.