We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against

By Nicholas von Hoffman

Book Overview

The classic account of the 1960s counterculture in San Francisco. A rare example of journalism that approaches art in one direction and the best of social science in another. Newsweek.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929587065
• ISBN13: 9780929587066
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ABOUT THE 60S AND ITS A TRUE STORY

this is the best book about the 60s and the haight ashbury ever writen i should know im white rabbitt

Was there... did that

As one of the lead characters in this story, I was quite taken with the veracity of my performance. Nick did an amazing amount of leg work over the course of the summer, based initially on people I introduced him to. He pursued many paths of interest and covered a substantial amount of territory. The narrative, as described elsewhere, had as much structure as the situation itself allowed, which was really very little. The Haight-Ashbury was about things happening. Things, in this milieu, were not particularly planned, beyond setting a temporal framework and attempting to provide events for the framework, or just letting the events take over and flow where they would. As a followup, Stuart Loomis and the White Rabbit have recently been in contact by email as a result of a documentary on the period broadcast on PBS. Kelly avoided Vietnam and spent many years as a roady for rock and roll bands. He disappeared from view in the early eighties. Nick himself has spent a number of years recently working on plays for the stage, after a long successful career at the Washington Post. The White Rabbit gave up on the idea of pursuing a medical career and is a senior executive in Information Technology.

The Real Thing

This is the book that really explains what went on in San Francisco in 67. Von Hoffman does a wonderful job of telling the scene how it was. Ifyou want to understand hippies of the 60's read this book. It takes a different approach of the scene by not foccussing on anything, but covers everything. Von Hoffman did what most writers of the Acid era did or could not do; he was unbiased. The only down side was the strange organization. It had no chapters or real structure. Despite that fact, the book was very fluid.