sources
The following is a list of key sources I used in my research while writing this book:
Books:
Growing Up Underground by Jane Alpert
The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama by Eric Alterman and Kevin Mattson
The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest by Gene Anthony
And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir by Joan Baez
A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker
Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan by Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America by Howard L. Bingham and Max Wallace
Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History by Larry Brilliant
Boom! Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow by Tom Brokaw
The Hare Krishnas in India by Charles R. Brooks
Country Joe and Me by Ron Cabral and Joe McDonald
Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and American Liberalism by William H. Chafe
White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg by Peter Conners
The Dialectics of Liberation by David Cooper
The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education by Peter Coyote
Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle by Peter Coyote
Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby by David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb
The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream by Richard Cummings
American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century by Leilah Danielson
America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives by Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach
Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
Timothy Leary and the Madmen of Millbrook by Theodore P. Druch
Trashing by Ann Fettamen (a.k.a. Anita Hoffman)
Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music by John Fogerty
Revolution for the Hell of It by Free (a.k.a. Abbie Hoffman)
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Valerie Smith
GINSBERG: India Revisited by Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Indian Journals by Allen Ginsberg
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties by Allen Ginsberg
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage by Todd Gitlin
The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left by Todd Gitlin
Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock’s Greatest Legends by John Glatt
Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason by Ralph J. Gleason
American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West by Philip Goldberg
New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative by Paul Goodman
Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison by Joshua M. Greene
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West by Joshua M. Greene
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III by Robert Greenfield
Timothy Leary: A Biography by Robert Greenfield
Callus on My Soul: A Memoir by Dick Gregory and Sheila P. Moses
Nigger by Dick Gregory
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan
Dreams Die Hard: Three Men’s Journey through the Sixties by David Harris
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement by Tom Hayden
The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama by Tom Hayden
Reunion: A Memoir by Tom Hayden
’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child by David Henderson
Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture by Jac Holzman and Gavan Daws
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley by Laura Huxley
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow
Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin
Allen Ginsberg in America by Jane Kramer
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture by Paul Krassner
How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years by Paul Krassner
Hip Capitalism by Susan Krieger
Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the FM Dial by Jim Ladd
Flashbacks: An Autobiography by Timothy Leary
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary
Look Out, Whitey! Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama! by Julius Lester
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster by Norman Mailer
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff
The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss
The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
Hippie by Barry Miles
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder edited by Bill Morgan
The 60s: The Story of a Decade by the New Yorker magazine and Henry Finder
Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties by Geoffrey O’Brien
2Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham
Dawning of the Counter-culture: The 1960s by William L. O’Neill
The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image by Professor Burton W. Peretti
The Haight-Ashbury: A History by Charles Perry
No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead by Peter Richardson
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll by the editors of Rolling Stone
Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture by Robert A. Roskind
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak
Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution by Jerry Rubin
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side by Ed Sanders
Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by Nicholas Schou
Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Michael Schumacher
Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead by Rock Scully
The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution by Joel Selvin and Jim Marshall (photography)
Monterey Pop by Joel Selvin and Jim Marshall (photography)
Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West by Joel Selvin
Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar by Ravi Shankar
Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan
Love Needs Care by David E. Smith, MD, and John Luce Smith
The I Ching: A Biography by Richard J. Smith
Owsley and Me: My LSD Family by Rhoney Gissen Stanley and Tom Davis
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
Lowenstein: Acts of Courage and Belief by Gregory Stone and Douglas Lowenstein
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s by Amy Swerdlow
Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane by Jeff Tamarkin
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco by Nicholas von Hoffman
The Making of the President 1968 by Theodore H. White
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties by Bill Zimmerman
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Crawdaddy
Dissent
East Village Other
Nation
New Republic
Newsweek
Ramparts
Realist
Rolling Stone
San Francisco Oracle
Time
Village Voice
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