What happened to the hippies? voices and perspectives / edited by Stewart L. Rogers. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (232 pages)

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Age of Aquarius -- All you need is love -- Do your own thing -- Doors of perception -- Flower power -- Free love -- Give peace a chance -- Going up the country -- I have a dream -- My sweet Lord -- Teach your children well -- The devil's bargain -- What now? -- Hippie history -- Hippie quotes.

Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life. But who were these longhaired dissenters bent on peace, love and equality? What did they believe? What did they want? Are their values still relevant today? Bringing together the personal accounts and perspectives of 54 "old hippies," this book illustrates how their lives and outlooks have changed over the past five decades. Their collective narrative invites readers to reach their own conclusions about the often misunderstood movement of ordinary young people who faced an era of escalating war, civil turmoil and political assassinations with faith in humanity and a belief in the power of ideas.



9781476637716


Hippies--History.--United States
Hippies--United States--Interviews.
Social history--1960-1970.
Social history--1970-


Electronic Books.

HQ799 / .W438 2019