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The Hippies and American Values
2012,2011
Overview
“Turn on, tune in, drop out,” Timothy Leary
advised young people in the 1960s. And many did, creating a
counterculture built on drugs, rock music, sexual liberation,
and communal living. The hippies preached free love, promoted
flower power, and cautioned against trusting anyone over
thirty. Eschewing money, materialism, and politics, they
repudiated the mainstream values of the times. Along the way,
these counterculturists created a lasting legacy and inspired
long-lasting social changes.
The Hippies and American Values uses an innovative
approach to exploring the tenets of the counterculture
movement. Rather than relying on interviews conducted years
after the fact, Timothy Miller uses “underground”
newspapers published at the time to provide a full and in-depth
exploration. This reliance on primary sources brings an
immediacy and vibrancy rarely seen in other studies of the
period. Miller focuses primarily on the cultural
revolutionaries rather than on the political radicals of the
New Left. It examines the hippies’ ethics of dope, sex,
rock, community, and cultural opposition and surveys their
effects on current American values. Filled with illustrations
from alternative publications, along with posters, cartoons,
and photographs,
The Hippies and American Values provides a graphic
look at America in the 1960s. This second edition features a
new introduction and a thoroughly updated, well-documented
text. Highly readable and engaging, this volume brings deep
insight to the counterculture movement and the ways it changed
America. The first edition became a widely used course-adoption
favorite, and scholars and students of the 1960s will welcome
the second edition of this thought-provoking book.
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press,The University of Tennessee Press
Subject
ISBN
9781572338173, 1572338172, 1572337702, 9781572337701
