Introduction: The world of the hippies
The beats, the culture of consensus and suburban America
The Haight-Ashbury and the emergence of the hippies
Hippies and the emergence of the drug culture
The hippies and rock and roll
The October 1966 Love Pageant Rally
The Montgomery Pop Festival, June 1967: The summer of love's defining event
Communes and the counterculture
The emergence of the yippies and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention: the beginning of the end for the 1960s counterculture
Woodstock, August 1969: a brief ray of hope for the hip counterculture's survival
The Manson murders and the December 1969 Altamont Calamity: the roads to hippie perdition
The counterrevolution to the counterculture: the middle class backlash to a decade of excess.
