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JOHN BASSETT McCLEARY is currently a freelance photographer and writer. In the sixties, he was a music industry photographer who traveled with the Doors, the Rolling Stones, and Tina Turner. He also photographed anti-war demonstrations and visited communes around the world. He lives in Monterey, California, with his wife, Joan.
""Whether your interest in the '¬´60s is academic, nostalgic or merely curious, this A-Z compendium is a groovy way to re-examine the many wonderful, way-out colors of the decade'¬?s cultural kaleidoscope.""-American Profile online ""Our Pick"" ""This is much more than a groovy (p. 223) dictionary. It is a time capsule and a travel guide (see ""trip"" on p. 533) plus a social and political history of an era whose influence is pervasive and ongoing."" -Wes Nisker, author of The Essential Crazy Wisdom""Provides information and insight into an explosive era that-underlying the sex, drugs, and rock '¬?n'¬? roll-was a sense of community, a spiritual revolution, and an evolutionary jump in consciousness."" -Paul Krassner, author of Murder at the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities""A unique and valuable sourcebook about all of the diverse projects, probes, movements, and moments that made the '¬?60s a key turning point in our history and culture."" -Richard Flacks, Ph.D., author of Beyond the Barricades: The Liberated Generation Grows Up""This book is irresistible. . . . It perfectly catches the fusion of beat generation slang, the lingo of jazz musicians . . . and the ghetto patter that resulted in a new dialect that most people now don'¬?t even recognize-so deeply has it seeped into the whole culture, spoken as often on Wall Street as the Berkeley campus."" -Joe Bob Briggs, syndicated columnist
