Hippie - Softcover

Miles, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402728735 ISBN 13: 9781402728730

Publisher: Cassell, 2005

Synopsis

New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price.


Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined an age, this tribute to the 1960's counterculture is as groovy as it gets. For those who were there, this volume will invoke the spirit of the time. Those who weren't, will wish they had been.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll; peace rallies and riots in the ghettos; Flower Power, Black Power, and Gay Power; Mothers of Invention and Women's Liberation; Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and Altamont. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: it all depends on whom you ask. But without a doubt, hippies transformed society. Take a magical mystery tour through this revolutionary period. Every significant moment comes vibrantly alive once again in day-glo psychedelic images, rare portraits of writers and musicians, dynamite poster and album artwork, and photographic records of political events that shook the world. Hundreds of unforgettable quotations come from seminal figures such as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, and Wavy Gravy.
Proceeding year by year from 1965-1971, Hippie gives an unprecedented degree of shape and coherence to an age of change--from the free-loving flower children of Haight-Ashbery to the student protesters of France--that by its nature is kaleidoscopically bewildering.

About this title

Book Description:

Alive with the outrageous personalities and revolutionary upheavals of a time that changed the world, Hippie is trippy and true to the spirit of a time unlike any other. Far out, man.

From the Back Cover:

Ladies & Gentlemen introducing the most amazing and unbelievable story you've ever heard!
Learn how from the ashes of war rose a great, multi-coloured, free-flying, mind-expanding movement that changed the world by preaching only LOVE and PEACE and dressing in olde worlde clothes.
Covering the years 1965 to 1971 in depth and with full prologue and epilogue sections that bring the story up to date, Hippie gives voice to the major figures of the scene. Illustrated using original poster and album artwork plus rare publications of the time, including International Times, Oz and early Rolling Stone magazine, Hippie includes screaming psychedelic images and rare portraits of stoned and tripping writers, musicians and the notorious and infamous scene-setters of the age. There are also photographic records of the political and musical events that came to shape and change the world in the time of the hippie.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cassell
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1402728735
• ISBN 13: 9781402728730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384