What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s
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What a long, strange trip it's been
Groovy, baby! All of you who didn't actually witness the British Invasion, the summer of love or man's first moon landing -- put on your bell bottoms and get ready to take a magical mystery tour of the '60s, that tumultuous decade of protest, assassination, music and celebration. Award-winning writer Mike Wright is your tour guide in What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s. Packed with trivia, history, rare sources and apocryphal stories, Wright's book combines entertaining reading with well-researched fact and opinion about the decade's events. Along the way, the author reveals little-known nuggets that sometimes contradict the prevailing opinion about the Flower Power years. For example, the book traces the origin of the LSD culture not to San Francisco's psychedelic Haight-Ashbury area, but to CIA experiments seeking a mind-control drug. His source: acid guru Timothy Leary, who claimed to have participated in the experiments and later famously exhorted his followers to "turn on, tune in, drop out." Wright divides his book into chapters on some of the era's most notable issues -- Vietnam, music, drugs, Nixon, assassination and others -- but within those sections provides a free-form narrative that links topical subjects with related events, historical precedents, quotes and trivia. So if you don't know the difference between a sit-in and a splashdown, cancel your ego trip, man, and pick up a copy of What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s -- it will blow your mind.
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