The last great dream: how bohemians became hippies and created the sixties

Introduction

The poets gather

The San Francisco art scene

Los Angeles and the emigres

Post-World War II Greenwich Village

The Village in the '50s

San Francisco in the early '50s

Mainstream America and San Francisco's first resistance

City lights, the place, and Marin

The beats and 'howl'

Changes become visible-civil rights and rock 'n' roll

Baghdad by the Bay and its artists

England awakens-skiffle and style

Los Angles: Wallace Berman, Ferus, and Venice Beach

New York in the late '50s

Asian thought and America

Four freshmen, the rise of student activism, and new options for women

The folk scare

The tape music center and its cohorts

The church of Capp Street: A new culture blossoms

The arc of the moral universde-civil rights in the south, San Francisco, and Berkeley

London, no longer dull

Transformation via LSD

The Village in the mid-'60s

Los Angeles and folk-rock

More changes: 1965 in San Francisco and thereabouts

The Trips Festival and what followed

Posters and light shows and really transitional sexual politics

London, psychedelicized

The diggers and the Love Pagent rally

The oracle and digger ritual

Hippie in New York

The be-in

After the be-in

Pilgrims overrun the Haight

A new guitar hero in London-Sgt. Pepper

Monterey Pop

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Glossary of names

Bibliography

Notes

Index.