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Stories done : writings on the 1960s and its discontents / Mikal Gilmore

Author
Gilmore, Mikal
Published
New York : Free Press, 2008.
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Description
viii, 391 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Pioneers and a border town. Allen Ginsberg : holy man ; Timothy Leary : the death of the most dangerous man in America ; The end of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead ; Ken Kesey's great American trip ; Haight-Ashbury in the summer of loss ; The Beatles : pinnacles & wakes ; The mystery inside George Harrison ; Sgt. Pepper : within and without the Beatles ; The mystery inside John Lennon -- The displaced. Johnny Cash : September when it comes ; Bob Marley's hell on earth -- Genius, intoxication, downfalls & hard reclamations. Phil Ochs' tale of American ruin ; Hunter S. Thompson : the last outlaw ; Jim Morrison and the Doors : the virtues of waste ; The Allman Brothers Band : bonds of music & elegy ; The long shadow of Led Zeppelin ; The madness and wonder of Pink Floyd -- The living. Bob Dylan : not there, then there ; Leonard Cohen's life of depression -- Postlude : Valley of the dolls.
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ISBN
9780743287456
0743287452
Note
Previously published essays.
Includes index.
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