Do You Believe in Magic? Bringing the Sixties Back Home

by Annie Gottlieb

This exploration of the lasting psychological legacy of the Sixties examines a broad range of topics, including drugs, travel, music, free love, politics, war, communes, and revolution, in a chronicle of a generation's search for a way of living.

Genres: History

419 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book's great service is to record the thoughts of the '60s generation in their own words. Unfortunately, Gottlieb's own words are dry and unengaging. Despite that, the spirit of the book is one of affection tempered by hindsight. For a reader endlessly fascinated by the hippie movement, this was a fascinating book, especially as it takes pains to track the evolution of the movement to its present-day incarnation as modern social liberalism. Aimed more towards skeptics and critics rather than nostalgic hippie wannabes, but I'm a bit of both, so I liked this pretty well.

[Mary Catelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

The counter-culture, as viewed by its participants. (Lots of people cited.) With only such (limited) perspective as they had acquired by living to the 1980s. Travel, drugs, and more.