Few cities represent the hippie countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. But where did this movement come from, and why was it centered in the Bay Area, including Marin County? Best selling author Dennis McNally, author of the seminal history of the Grateful Dead, A Long Strange Trip, publicist for the Dead, and author of several other books on the counterculture provides some answers in his newest book, The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties.
The Last Great Dream provides a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement, which continues to influence San Francisco and the Bay Area today, and remains one of the region's most influential exports. The book, aready being hailed as "a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two decades", touches upon the influence of folk music, beat poetry, visual arts, underground publishing, electronic/contemporary compositional music, experimental theater, psychedelics, and more.
Please join us for a special celebration of this important book! The evening will feature:
a book talk with longtime Marin County music journalist Paul Liberatore
music inspired by the book from The Flying Salvias
Beat poetry by J. Macon King, Editor-in-Chief of The MILL VALLEY LITERARY REVIEW
And more!
It will be a night of history, music, and more....about the generation-defining countercultural movement and everything that led to its significant impact on American culture.