The Counter-culture
03 Oct 1994 12:00What exactly happened and was believed in the '60s and '70s; why then, there and them; ancestors; contemporary descendants; other counter-cultures, especially outside North America, most especially in Asia
- Recommended:
- Paul Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
- Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- Joan Didion
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- The White Album
- Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture = The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
- Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason, Part I
- Francesca Polletta, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
- Jean-Francois Revel, Without Marx or Jesus
- John Sladek, The New Apocrypha
- Webb, The Occult Establishment
- To read:
- Walter Truett Anderson. Upstart Spring: Esalen and the American Awakening
- Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
- Loren Glass, Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde
- Grace Elizabeth Hale, A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
- Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Low (eds.), The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization
- Robert Jay Lifton, History and Human Survival
- Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, c. 1958--c. 1974
- Roberta Price, Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
- Roszak, Making of a Counter-Culture
- Jay Stevens, Storming Heaven: LSD + the American Dream
- Schell, Mandate of Heaven [Chinese counter-culture]
- Robert Wuthnow, The Consciousness Reformation
