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Summer of Love in San Francisco: How Hippies, LSD, and Rolling Stone Transformed America
How did one foggy city end up with the Beats, the hippies, the biggest gay community and the loudest rock scene of the 60s and 70s? Follow the trail back to the Gold Rush, where the lights came on all at once and nobody ever turned them off.
Peter Richardson, author of Brand New Beat: A New History of Rolling Stone’s Early Years in San Francisco, takes us back to the city where it all caught fire. Think the Beats, LSD (legal until October 1966), the Human Be-In, the Summer of Love, and a few hundred hippies who just wanted to dance and accidentally rewired American culture.
Then came Rolling…
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