Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll

As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies.

Robert C. Cottrell has written over twenty books, including biographies of the radical journalist I. F. Stone, ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin, and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He is the author most recently of Two Icons: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball and America. Cottrell, professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, has also taught in London; Puebla, Mexico; and Moscow, Russia, in the latter instance as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He is currently working on a collective biography of four key members of the early twentieth-century American left: Crystal Eastman, John Reed, Inez Milholland, and Randolph Bourne.

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley Chapter 2: Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats Chapter 3: The Continued Reception of the Beats Chapter 4: From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary Chapter 5: The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey Chapter 6: The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism Chapter 7: The Magic in the Music Chapter 8: California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury Chapter 9: Spreading the Word: Alternative Media Chapter 10: People of the Book Chapter 11: From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love Chapter 12: The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems Chapter 13: Alternative Living Chapter 14: From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution Chapter 15: Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands Chapter 16: COINTELPRO and the Millennium Chapter 17: The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse Chapter 18: The Not So Slow Fade Chapter 19:It's All Over Now Notes Bibliography Index About the Author