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Hippie | 
 enlarge | Author: Barry Miles
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Category: Book
List Price: $62.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 2752122
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.4
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 10.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 1844030857
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9781844030859
ASIN: 1844030857
Publication Date: October 9, 2003
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It’s the celebration of an era. At a mind-blowing price, this ultimate, beautiful, illuminating, and really groovy look at the 1960s counterculture is rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined the age. For those who were there, this volume will flash them back. For those who weren’t, they’ll wish they had been.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll; peace rallies and riots in the ghettos; Flower Power, Black Power, and Gay Power; Mothers of Invention and Women’s Liberation; Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and Altamont. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: it all depends on whom you ask. But without a doubt the hippies transformed society. Every significant moment of the era comes vibrantly alive once again in psychedelic images, rare portraits of writers and musicians, dynamite poster and album artwork, and photographic records of political events that shook the world. Hundreds of unforgettable quotations come from seminal figures such as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick and George Harrison. Proceeding year by year from 1965 to 1971, Hippie gives an unprecedented degree of shape and coherence to an age—that is kaleidoscopically astounding.
Barry Miles was a central figure in the counterculture milieu. He wrote Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, as well as The Beatles: A Diary; contributed to I Want to Take You Higher, the Rock Music Hall of Fame’s chronicle of psychedelic music. The Sixties is Miles’ own memoir of the decade.
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 Brilliant Nuggets of the *H*I*P*P*I*E* **60s** August 12, 2008
I loved Barry Miles book HIPPIE. It's an overstuffed, medium sized paperback that covers the time period starting in 1965 and ending in 1971.
Each year is a chapter, and full of pictures and info that highlight the events; just enough to whet the appetite but not enough to become overwhelming or tedious. In fact it leaves you longing for more.
Miles give you a taste of all the incredible events that have since become synonymous with the counter-culture of the 60s like: the Diggers, Haight Ashbury, The Human Be-In, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Vietnam, LSD, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Woodstock, Altamont, the Acid tests and the Merry Pranksters, and so much more!
There are pictures on every page showing the scene, album covers, the music posters and the people and places that drove the hippie movement. I cannot express how much I enjoyed this book.
There are a couple of small issues that I have with HIPPIE. One was the type size...I found the type a little small and it took my eyes awhile to get used to it, but they adjusted. Also, like I said, Miles just gives you enough information about the people, places, and events to give you a general idea of what was going on during that time so it does leave you wanting to know more. Of course, since there was so much going on in each of the years from 1965-1971 it would've been impossible to go into great detail about the events and people without having the book become too large. (For more in-depth look at the Haight-Ashbury scene in San Francisco check out The Haight-Ashbury: A History)
But it was informative and most importantly ENTERTAINING to read. I recommend this book to anyone who lived through the 60s or wished they did.
love it August 11, 2008
I love this book ... cool photos ... awesome stories ... if you like the hippie era .. you WILL LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!
Hippie August 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hippie by Barry Miles *****
One of the greatest and most interesting coffee table books in history. Hippie is bright with vibrant pictures of the hippie movement, which in this book is depicted as more than just a small gathering in San Francisco, California in the mid to late 1960's, but something that was much bigger and basically covered the entire globe.
Packed with great and intelligent quotes from those who were actually there. Interesting bits that some may not realized were in connection to the movement and what a massive impact they had on the world. Intelligently written showing both the goods the movement did as well as the bad. Both sides of the fence are shown, those who were for the movement and those against. Barry Miles is one of the worlds best biographers and Hippie is just another trophy on his wall. Highly recommended.
 Soulless, dull. July 9, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
What is supposed to be a celebration of / tribute to hippies and 60s counter-culture turned out more like a soulless, dull chronology of drug busts punctuated by lackluster quotes about LSD and illustrated with photographs that are tantalizing yet unexplained, therefore contextually irrelevant. I wanted more about the human condition.
 A Good Read, but not a definitive authority on "hippies" May 21, 2008
I think this book achieves it's overall purpose, supposing it was really written (marketed) as a coffee table book. It is most certainly not a definitive authority on the hippie movement, but if you are someone who enjoys reading about things that you kind of already know, it's perfect. I feel that the writer is not at fault here, he seems well informed and researched, but I think the editors of this book have done both the author and the reader a great disservice. There is no real tangible organization of the book, making it difficult to flip from section to section in any logical order. The wording is also lacking, often using the wrong term (ie manor instead of manner) and countless sentence fragments and what appear to be typos (didn't anyone proof read the final copy?). As I stated before, I believe the information itself to be a good interesting group of facts, though by no means complete or particularly thought provoking. If you're looking for something to read because you genuinely have interest in the late 60's to early 70's and you're the type to read while absent mindedly listening to the TV or watching the kids, this is the book for you. If you're searching for an intrinsic and thought provoking hippie encyclopedia, I'd search elsewhere.
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