The highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s—one lost, one seeking—on "a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain" (The New Yorker).
The political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen, in 1978. Phoebe is

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The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.

A circle and three lines: The peace symbol unifies people around the world, crossing language barriers and inspiring hope. This short film follows its history from the 1950s through today, challenging us to remember its past and take responsibility for its future. Back to the garden: In 1988, filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson filmed and interviewed a group of back-to-the-land "hippies"--Living off-grid, insultated from mainstream culture. In 2006, he tracked...

Follows the adventures of three young adults who avoid incarceration by going undercover with the aid of their hippy personas.

A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book.

Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.

"Who in the Hell is Rumi Missabu?" Find out as we follow the wild life of a counter-culture and drag icon who would eventually become known as Rumi Missabu. A founding member of the radical queer performance group, The Cockettes, Rumi leaves Hollywood a trained child actor and dives headfirst into the LSD fueled hippie culture of San Francisco. The lifestyle and brief brush with celebrity leads to Rumi burning out and disappearing off the grid for...

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.

This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks,

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