Last Great Dream

The Last Great Dream How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties Dennis McNallyDa Capo, 2025ISBN 9780306835667 Hardcover, 432 pp.9.2 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches | 1.5 pounds "McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two decades."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement. Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that decade, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was home to self-branded "freaks" (dubbed "hippies" by the media) who created the world's first psychedelic neighborhood--an alchemical chamber for social transformation. They rejected a large part of the tr