Works on the 1960's Era (23 works)

The mid-to-late 1960's were a time unlike any other. That turbulent era is critical to understanding where we are at now and why. It was an idealistic, interesting, and also in many respects a very sad and disappointing era. Many young people placed their hopes in revolution and counterculture, but in the final analysis, they did not find what they were looking for. But they did change the social landscape of their country permanently. The books you will find here have to do with major themes of the 1960's such as the new left, the vietnam war, popular music, mysticism, the civil rights movement, psychedelic drugs, hippies, student activism, etc.

• Annonymous. Go Ask Alice. Avon Books, 1971
• Cashman, John. The LSD story. Fawcett, 1966
• Davis, Stephen. Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend. Penguin, 2005.
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. City lights pocket poets anthology. City Lights Books, 1995.
• Guinness, Os. The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever. Crossway Books, 1994
• Hollingshead, Michael. The man who turned on the world. Abelard-Schuman, 1974
• Hoskyns, Barney. Across the Great Divide: The Band and America. Hal Leonard, 2006
• Hunter, Robert, A Box of Rain: Lyrics:1965-1993. Penguin, 1993.
• Lewis, John, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Harvest Books, 1999.
• McWilliams, John C. The 1960s Cultural Revolution. Greenwood Press, 2000
• Rand, Ayn. The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Plume, 1999
• Rubin, Jerry. Do it; scenarios of the revolution. Ballantine Books, 1970
• Scully, Rock. Living with the Dead. Little, Brown & Co, 1985
• Sherman, Susan. America's Child: A Woman's Journey Through The Radical 60s. Curbstone Press, 2007
• Shires, Preston. Hippies of the Religious Right: From the Countercultures of Jerry Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell. Baylor University Press, 2007
• Stone, I.F. The Killings at Kent State. New York Review Books, 1971
• Stone, Robert. Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties. Ecco, 2007
• Tendler, Stewart & May, David. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Panther Books Granada Publishing, 1984
• Thompson, Hunter S. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Modern Library, 1999
• Unger, Debi, The Times Were A Changin': The Sixties Reader, 1997
• Zolov, Eric, Refried Elvis: the rise of Mexican counterculture. University of California Press, 1999
• Young, Warren. LSD on Campus. Dell Paperbacks, 1966
• Not Fade Away: The Online World Remembers Jerry Garcia. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1995