counterculture

"In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture."--OCLC.

During the three days of the music festival known as Woodstock, Michael Michaelson of Somerville, Massachusetts, and Cora Fletcher, a volunteer in the medical tent who lives nearby, share incredible experiences, the greatest of which is meeting each other.

When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.

Provides a historical analysis of "hip" from its journey to the Harlem Renaissance and covers colonial plantations, pulp magazine racks, and hipster hangouts. Examines the works of bop jazz and Beat Generation writers as "models of complex social forces." Explores evidence of African and European influence on the blues and hip.

Traces the events of the 1960s, from the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of the counter-culture explosion. Looks at how this decade of change transformed the United States. Includes interviews with prominent figures of the era, including: Barbara Ehrenreich, Tom Hayden, Henry Kissinger, Normal Mailer, Robert McNamara, Bobby Seale, and others.

When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.

Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

This book traces the history of the American counterculture of the 1960s. consisting of a mixed legacy of the diverse agendas of university students, blacks, women, hippies, and radicals with overlapping goals such as ending the Vietnam War and ending the Establishment's stranglehold on the U.S.