Hippies


Schooled
Arcadia
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Drop City
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman
Hippie
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Love, Janis
That Was Then, This Is Now
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution
Freakout on Sunset Strip by Donald F. GlutHere Come the Hippies by William Charles Spatari101 Hippie Jokes by Paul Laikin1001 Ways to Beat the Draft by Tuli KupferbergThe Jade Madelaine by David B. Churchill
Building for a Paisley Formica Grave
175 books — 5 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeWild World by Peter S. RushGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction)
193 books — 240 voters

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksBurn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaFor What It's Worth by Janet TashjianLove and Haight by Susan  CarltonDreams of Significant Girls by Cristina García
YA Fiction set in the 1970s
89 books — 47 voters
Prayer by Charles F. StanleyThe Year Winter Came Late by Michael L. LarzelereThe Power of Unconditional Love by Ken Keyes Jr.
This Season's People
3 books — 2 voters


The hippies saw themselves as enlightened. They were in fact about as endarkened as it was possible to get, the absolute enemies of Apollo. We need a new 1960s style revolution, but one which is much better thought out with regard to it consequences. Above all, it has to be explicitly allied to Apollonian forces, and explicitly resistant to anarchism, libertarianism and individualistic narcissism. Cataclysmically, 60s individualism mated with Ayn Rand’s anarcho-capitalist libertarianism, which d ...more
Joe Dixon, The Liberty Wars: The Trump Time Bomb

David  Mitchell
Jasper notes that Jesus's disciples were, essentially, hippies: long hair, gowns, stoner expressions, irregular employment, spiritual convictions, dubious sleeping arrangements and a guru. ...more
David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

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