Hippies


Schooled
Arcadia
Drop City
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman
Hippie
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
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
The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution
Summer of '69 by Todd StrasserClover Blue by Eldonna EdwardsHome Free by Rifka KreiterThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Books for Aging Hippies
62 books — 41 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)
216 books — 259 voters

Full Tilt by Dervla MurphyGoa Freaks by Cleo OdzerOdyssey by Ananda G. BradyThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxFlash by Charles Duchaussois
Hippie Trail to India
44 books — 8 voters

“ In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black. ...more ”
― Kate Rockland, Falling Is Like This

Jim Goad
“ the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. ”
― Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

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