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.
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