What Happened to the Hippies?
Voices and Perspectives
Seiten
2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
9781476678955 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
9781476678955 (ISBN)
Bringing together the personal accounts and perspectives of 54 “old hippies”, this book illustrates how their lives and outlooks have changed over the past five decades. Their collective narrative invites readers to reach their own conclusions about this often misunderstood movement.
Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life. But who were these longhaired dissenters bent on peace, love and equality? What did they believe? What did they want? Are their values still relevant today?
Bringing together the personal accounts and perspectives of 54 "old hippies," this book illustrates how their lives and outlooks have changed over the past five decades. Their collective narrative invites readers to reach their own conclusions about the often misunderstood movement of ordinary young people who faced an era of escalating war, civil turmoil and political assassinations with faith in humanity and a belief in the power of ideas.
Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life. But who were these longhaired dissenters bent on peace, love and equality? What did they believe? What did they want? Are their values still relevant today?
Bringing together the personal accounts and perspectives of 54 "old hippies," this book illustrates how their lives and outlooks have changed over the past five decades. Their collective narrative invites readers to reach their own conclusions about the often misunderstood movement of ordinary young people who faced an era of escalating war, civil turmoil and political assassinations with faith in humanity and a belief in the power of ideas.
Stewart L. Rogers is a nonfiction writer and collage artist living in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
About the Contributors
Age of Aquarius
All You Need Is Love
Do Your Own Thing
Doors of Perception
Flower Power
Free Love
Give Peace a Chance
Going Up the Country
I Have a Dream
My Sweet Lord
Teach Your Children Well
The Devil’s Bargain
What Now?
Hippie History
Hippie Quotes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.10.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | appendices, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781476678955 / 9781476678955 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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