Hippie. by Miles, Barry - 2004.

New York:: Sterling Publishing Company, 2004.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with white spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. about 12 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide . Index. Pale green endpapers. Description: Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. ''Between the years 1965 and 1971 something happened to make the world on one side of that divide all but unrecognizable to the world on the other side. For better or for worse, those seven years revolutionized western --,and eventually global -- culture as utterly as any of the great turning points in our history. What happened were the hippies.. Long hair, grass and LSD, free love, rock music and the other great festivals from Monterey to Woodstock, antiwar protests and political activism, communes and macrobiotics, spiritual seeking in Eastern religions and personal transformation in therapies and practices from est to gestalt, the first stirring of the modern environmental and feminist movements: the hippies were defined by virtually everything so-called straight society was not. This combines hundreds of photographs with a fascinating narrative highlighting all the social and cultural upheavals of the time, as well as quotations from many of the people -- Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, Wavy Gravy, and man others who lived through and shaped the counterculture. Proceeding year by year, it gives an unprecedented shape and coherence to a time that by its nature is kaleidoscopically bewildering.''