“[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America

It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin’s The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote

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"If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead the concert featured a harrowing series of disasters, starting with the concert{u2019}s haphazard planning. The bad acid...

"From one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture--the story behind so many other stories. Stewart Brand has long been famous if you knew who he was, but for many people outside the counterculture,...

The term "counter-culture" defies pat explanations as surely as those who have participated in countercultural movements have defied the customs and conventions of their time and place.

"Explores the history of Boston radio station WBCN, focusing on its involvement with the social, political, and cultural changes taking place in Boston and the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s."--

"Ram Dass shares the essence of his core wisdom through his iconic humor, joy, and honesty. Historical footage complements an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto as they explore the life experiences that helped to free Ram Dass from the attachment to his 'somebody-ness' a journey that transformed him into the radiant soul who now inspires a new generation. It is the quintessential portal to Ram Dass' life and teachings." --

"The story of how legendary radio station WBCN (and by extension the city of Boston) emerged as a central crossroads of the 1960s counterculture and political activism"--

The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine...