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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: cozmik_cowboy on July 26, 2025, 12:45:58 PM
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I just stumbled across the fact that Dennis McNally (longtime Dead publicist & author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History Of The Grateful Dead, which is highly recommended) has a new one out; The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies And Created The Sixties.
Just ordered from the library; I'll report back.
Peter
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... Just ordered from the library; I'll report back.
Peter
Please do!
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Thanks Peter
Got it Kindle for under 20
it has certainly put the lasso around the neck of my interest :D
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This afternoon I read the table of contents and the introduction online, and now I've just ordered as well.
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Hey there Dave and Peter
It's been a great read so far
I think you both will be glad you bought it
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Just finished it; a wonderful tracing of several generations the cultural, spiritual, and intellectual underpinnings of the hippie movement. A fine reminder of why we were right all along......
In the acknowledgements, McNally says it is "the fourth and last part" of his life's work, a history of the post-war (mostly) American counterculture. Having now read the 2nd (A Long Strange Trip: the Inside History of the Grateful Dead) and the 4th and loved both, I ordered the one copy held in any Illinois library of the 1st (Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America*) and, no library owning it, from Amazon the 3rd (On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom).
*Garcia worshiped Kerouac and loved Dennis's bio; that's how he came to be their publicist.
Peter
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I'm on chapter 30, about 64% of the way through; and so far, it's amazing. I know a lot of the names and events from other sources I've come across throughout my life; and this book ties them all together into a cohesive whole, even deeper than I previously imagined - names and events that came to significantly shape my life as well as the culture.
I'm considering moving next to two autobiographical books by Peter Coyote that cover some of the same ground, especially around the Diggers.
At the same time I'm reading A History of Rock & Roll in 500 Songs mentioned in another thread, which also covers some of the same ground. I'm on Episode 15, Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton. Well researched and well written.
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I'm on chapter 30, about 64% of the way through; and so far, it's amazing. I know a lot of the names and events from other sources I've come across throughout my life; and this book ties them all together into a cohesive whole, even deeper than I previously imagined - names and events that came to significantly shape my life as well as the culture.
I'm considering moving next to two autobiographical books by Peter Coyote that cover some of the same ground, especially around the Diggers.
At the same time I'm reading A History of Rock & Roll in 500 Songs mentioned in another thread, which also covers some of the same ground. I'm on Episode 15, Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton. Well researched and well written.
All duly noted; thanks, Dave.
Peter