1965 to '71 - Was there ever a more exciting time to be young? These are the years of focus for Barry Miles - all in delightful, brain-frying detail - in his exquisite, aptly-named tome, Hippie. From Kings Road to the Haight-Ashbury to all the major pop festivals and counterculture hotbeds, the spirit of the 60's youth movement is chronicled and thoughtfully scrutinized with the benefit of 40 plus years hindsight.The Beats, the Merry Pranksters, the Diggers, pot and LSD, birth control pills, communes, and Sergeant Pepper. Their influences are threaded together and detailed in a cohesive narrative, making sense of a multitude of seemingly disparate subject matter. This mammoth work fondly and vividly depicts a generation in flux - triumphs, traumas, follies and all.A must-have for any self-respecting aging flower child!Tanya Coadauthor of Love Haight '69Love Haight '69: a novel