Sixties


The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Chronicles, Volume One
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Hippie
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
11/22/63
No One Here Gets Out Alive
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
The Haight-Ashbury: A History
Inherent Vice
The Help
Just Kids
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
The Hungryalist or the hungry generation movement was a literary movement in Bengali that was launched in 1961, by a group of young Bengali poets. It was spearheaded by the famous Hungryalist quartet — Malay Roychoudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Shakti Chattopadhyay and Debi Roy. They had coined Hungryalism from the word ‘Hungry’ used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his poetic line “in the sowre hungry tyme”. The central theme of the movement was Oswald Spengler’s idea of History, that an ailing culture feed ...more
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury, The Hungryalists

Tom Robbins
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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