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Counterculture History

Rank Title Author Added

1

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

929 members

12 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kageeh, aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Early, influential insider.

2

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

269 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kageeh, kiracle

3

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

by Virginia Nicholson

467 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The counter-culture in the 1920s in Britain.

4

Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles

by William M. Kephart

211 members

1 review

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Some of the oldest counter-culture movements in the US

5

Kiki's Paris: Artist and Lovers 1900-1930

by Billy Klüver

199 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: kiracle

6

The Haight-Ashbury: A History

by Charles Perry

193 members

1 review

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Very easy to read.

7

The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture

by David E. Shi

147 members

3 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: A historical look at how simple living has been a constant theme in US culture.

8

Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918

by Martin B. Green

144 members

3.8

Member: kiracle

9

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

by Daniel Berrigan

132 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The roots of late 20th century pacifism in the US.

10

Nature Religion in America

by Catherine L. Albanese

94 members

1 review

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Another good historical overview of counter-cultural trends in the US.

11

California's Utopian Colonies

by Robert V. Hine

66 members

½ 3.6

Member: kiracle

12

New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community

58 members

½ 3.3

Member: kiracle

13

Children of the Sun

by Gordon Kennedy

34 members

Member: kiracle

14

Mountain of Truth: The Counterculture BeginsAscona, 1900-1920

by Martin Green

31 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

15

1968: The World Transformed (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

29 members

½ 2.5

Member: kiracle

16

Year of the Heroic Guerrilla: World Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968

by Robert V. Daniels

27 members

4

Member: kiracle

17

Berkeley: The New Student Revolt

26 members

3

Member: aulsmith

18

Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles

by Paul Greenstein

20 members

4

Member: kiracle

19

Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now

by Richard Connelly Miller

18 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

20

Prophets of a New Age: Counterculture and the Politics of Hope

by Martin Green

18 members

Member: kiracle

21

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930

13 members

Member: kiracle

22

The Jesus Movement in America: Accounts of Christian revolutionaries in action

by Edward E. Plowman

12 members

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: What happened to the hippies in the 1970s

23

Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era

by Estelle Gershgoren Novak

12 members

Member: kiracle

24

Literary L.A.: Expanded From the Original Classic and Featuring the Coffeehouse Scene Then and Now

by Lionel Rolfe

9 members

4

Member: kiracle

25

Ascona, Monte Verita

by Robert Landmann

8 members

Member: kiracle

26

Krotona of Old Hollywood, 1866-1913

by Joseph E. Ross

8 members

Member: kiracle

27

Return to Nature: Paradise Regained

7 members

4

Member: kiracle

28

Cities of light and sons of the morning; a cultural psychology for an age of revolution

by Martin Burgess Green

5 members

Member: kiracle

29

Fat Man On The Left: Four Decades In The Underground

by Lionel Rolfe

4 members

Member: kiracle

30

Krotona of Old Hollywood, Volume II, 1914-1920

by Joseph E. Ross

3 members

Member: kiracle

31

Miami and the Siege of Chicago

by Norman Mailer

518 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

32

Prelude to revolution; France in May 1968

by Daniel Singer

73 members

½ 3.5

33

Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture

by Mark Oppenheimer

37 members

1 review

2

34

Up against the ivy wall; a history of the Columbia crisis

by Jerry L. Avorn

31 members

1 review

3

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Started: kiracle
February 2012
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