The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

$32.50 at de Young Museum.

From ​the former publicist and biographer of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, comes The Last Great Dream, a history of everything that led to the 1960s counterculture, when long-simmering, underground resistance to American mainstream values birthed the hippie.McNally's gripping narrative ties everything together with a cast of fascinating people, and tells several micro-histories in the process, including beat poetry, visual arts, underground publishing, electronic/contemporary compositional music…