Hippies of Hollywood

Los Angeles CA

Description

Book available on Amazon.com Review follows: Can a person who has, for a quarter of a century, been enriched by this author’s friendship remain objective in critiquing Hippies of Hollywood? In answer to this query, I submit the following: this book is accessible to any teenager or adult, but those desiring either a glorification or condemnation of the counterculture of the late 1960s should look elsewhere. Autobiographical in nature, this series of stories tells of one who was neither seduced by idealism nor turned against it completely. The reader will encounter a young woman who experiences terror at being assaulted, is awed by the unbridled emotion of a rock concert, and comes to know the satisfaction of comforting a gravely ill young man. The ordinary, the eccentric, and the humorous--all this will be found in a work suitable for being devoured while on a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles or being consumed piecemeal over a series of weeks in a classroom. For those born prior to 1955, this text is sure to revive dormant memories. Are you a teacher seeking material for a lesson dealing with America of the late 1960s? Do you instead desire, with your students, to explore the collision between preconceived notions and actual experience? In whole or in part, Hippies of Hollywood can serve a valuable function in any such educational endeavors.