Title:
Stories done : writings on the 1960s and its discontents
Author:
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
viii, 391 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780743287456
Contents:
Pioneers and a border town. Allen Ginsberg : holy man ; Timothy Leary : the death of the most dangerous man in America ; The end of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead ; Ken Kesey's great American trip ; Haight-Ashbury in the summer of loss ; The Beatles : pinnacles & wakes ; The mystery inside George Harrison ; Sgt. Pepper : within and without the Beatles ; The mystery inside John Lennon -- The displaced. Johnny Cash : September when it comes ; Bob Marley's hell on earth -- Genius, intoxication, downfalls & hard reclamations. Phil Ochs' tale of American ruin ; Hunter S. Thompson : the last outlaw ; Jim Morrison and the Doors : the virtues of waste ; The Allman Brothers Band : bonds of music & elegy ; The long shadow of Led Zeppelin ; The madness and wonder of Pink Floyd -- The living. Bob Dylan : not there, then there ; Leonard Cohen's life of depression -- Postlude : Valley of the dolls.
Language:
English