Imagine Nation The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's

The counterculture of the 1960s and '70s remains a highly controversial topic in American society; virtually the only thing that can be agreed upon is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out.
Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, "Imagine Nation" is the first collection of essays to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, "Imagine Nation" offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s irrevocably altered American society.

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.

Chapter 01 Foreword, Marilyn B. Young; Chapter 02 Introduction, Peter Braunstein, michael William Doyle; Part 1 Deconditioning; Chapter 03 The Intoxicated State/Illegal nation, David Farber; Chapter 04 From Consciousness Expansion to Consciousness Raising, Debra Michals; Part 03 Cultural Politics; Chapter 05 Staging the Revolution, Michael William Doyle; Chapter 06 The Revolution is about Our Lives, Doug Rossinow; Chapter 07 The White Panthers' Total Assault on the Culture, Jeff A. Hale; Part 05 Identity; Chapter 08 Counterculture Indians and the New Age, Philip Deloria; Chapter 09 Voodoo Child, Lauren Onkey; Chapter 10 Gay Gatherings, Robert McRuer; Part 07 Pop Culture and Mass Media; Chapter 11 Forever Young, Peter Braunstein; Chapter 12 The Movies are a Revolution, David E. James; Chapter 13 Sex as a Weapon, Beth Bailey; Part 09 Alternative Visions; Chapter 14 The Sixties-Era Communes, Timothy miller; Chapter 15 Machines of Loving Grace, Andrew Kirk;

Peter Braunstein is a journalist and cultural historian based in New York City. He writes about fashion, film, celebrity, the 1960s, music, technology, and pop culture for such publications as the Village Voice, Forbes, American Heritage, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Women's Wear Daily, W, and culturefront. He received his M.A. from New York University in 1992, having written a thesis on the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. Michael William Doyle worked in the new-wave food co-op movement during the 1970s while living communally on an organic farm he helped found in Wisconsin. He went on to earn a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989), and a Ph.D. at Cornell University (1997). He is currently Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University at Muncie, Indiana. He is the author of Free Radicals: The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the American Counterculture in the 1960s.