What a long strange trip it's been: A hippy's history of the sixties & beyond

by Lewis Sanders

Book Overview

On June 27, 1862, with the American Civil War already a year old, General Robert E. Lee assumed personal command of troops engaged in driving the Federal Army of the Potomac out of Richmond - troops... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964308304
• ISBN13: 9780964308305
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Still Steaming Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

It has indeed...

It's kind of funny about how I never really identified with the hippies and the counter-culture when all this was going on. I was more inclined to believe the "establishment" version. Now, after all these years, I see that the counter-culture was more often right, or at least on the right track, than not. They tried to warn us- now look at the world.... The author starts out with a brief nod to the bohemians and beats before moving onto flower power, acid tests, and the Summer of Love. He points out that it is really the same sort of people involved. All through history you had your outsiders that chose to go furthur: philosophers, poets, artists, yogins, hermits, hippies, gypsies, magicians, shamans. It was just that in the sixties the Spirit infused itself into a large part of a generation and didn't have to confine itself to a bohemian underground. It even dared to expose the truth about the surrounding society- and suggest that things could be different. It looked for a time that things might really change for the better- and then corporate power struck back with a sledgehammer.... For an admitted pot smoker the author has written a well-organised and detailed account stretching well into the Reagan-counterrevolution. I see nothing too paranoid here. Indeed, just about all these claims have been verified to my satisfaction over the years. But, as the author points out, no one really cares anymore. The corporations are more powerful, greedy, and destructive than ever- and those Lost Angels that sense the truth are once again driven underground and to the fringes....

A Long Strange trip Traveled In One Night

I borrowed a copy of this book from a friend of mine about a year ago and ended up reading this book from front to back in one sitting. It details many of the shady tactits used by the US gov't in the 60's to disinform and whitewash the American counter-culture(i.e. hippies, and beatniks) of it's dirty dealing here and abroad. Needless to say, after staying up all night and finishing this book I was slightly paranoid for a short while and forever interested in the undert-belly of this nation of ours. the book was very thought-provoking and deserves a place in any fledgling conspiracy theorist's bookshelf as a jumping on point.