As he explores the counterculture of the 1960s and some of the influential people and movements that help define it. The name of my book is sex, drugs and rock and roll the rise of americas 1960s counterculture. My book focuses on kind of the whole of american bohemia to a certain extent so i go back and talk about early progenitors, i talk about figures like Edgar Allen Poe and walt whitman. I talk about the lyrical left in the early 20th century, john reed, maurice bryant. I talk abouthipsters , and then i focus on the beats, the two figures of the cast of Allen Ginsberg and jack kerouac, two of the central biographical elements in this book. And then i go on and talk about Timothy Leary, ken kesey and a whole array of characters of course through the decade of the 1960s. When we think of the counterculture of the 1960s, when we think of the hippies we think of literally millions of participants in one capacity or another. And they were individuals who were disenchanted with matters
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