Jonathan EisenBesprekingen

The report on the Rolling Stones concert in California. Planned, or not planned, to be another Woodstock...it went very badly with at least one death by violence. The band was appalled by what happened but were insulated from the audience and the bulk of the event. The book is a collection of newspaper and magazine articles.½

Contains:
Part 1. Doors of perception. Notes toward an understanding of California / Herbert Gold --
California rising / Wallace Stegner --
Eureka! A celebration of California / John Gregory Dunne --
Lost Horizon / Lewis H. Lapham --
Part 2. Northern California Country. First glimpse of the Sierra / John Muir --
Emerson at Yosemite / John Muir --
Roughing it in San Francisco / Samuel Langhorne Clemens --
The society upon the Stanislaus / Nigey Lennon --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county / Samuel Langhorne Clemens --
What the railroads will bring us / Henry George --
The Shirley letters from the California mines / Louise Clapp --
Old Chinatown / Will Irwin --
Sojourner / Gerald Haslam --
A social history of the hippies / Warren Hinckle --
Why Norman is still on the bus / Lionel Rolfe --
Hippies without a home / Frank Robertson --
Country women / Kate Coleman --
The oranges of the millennium / Henry Miller --
The serial / Cyra McFadden --
Part 3. Southern California Country. Harry's bar, century city / Jack Smith --
Vulnerable / Richard Reeves --
Looking for history in L.A. / William Irwin Thompson --
The discovery of Los Angeles / Carey McWilliams --
Don't shoot Los Angeles / Carey McWilliams --
The loved one / Evelyn Waugh --
The deer park / Norman Mailer --
All the world's a TV / Ben Masselink --
Part 4. Voices of dissent. Factories in the field / Carey McWilliams --
Their blood is strong / John Steinbeck --
The Okies: forty years later / Gerald Haslam --
The organizer's tale / Cesar Chavez --
Berkeley and the university revolution / Sheldon S. Wolin and John H. Schaar --
A journey into the minds of Watts / Thomas Pynchon --
The revolt of the cockroach people / Oscar Zeta Acosta --
The mayor of Castro Street / Randy Shilts --
Part 5. Paving paradise. The boutiquing of California's coast / John McKinney --
Spaced out west / Stanley Poss --
When you wish upon a star / Richard Stayton --
Bouncing at the whisky / Jeffrey Shore --
Byting the apple / James D. Houston.