The Haight Ashbury - Charles Perry

The psychedelic community of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district was probably the most widely written-about phenomenon of the 1960s apart from the Viet Nam conflict. But the people who wrote about it were primarily outsiders who knew very little about how it all arose or participants clumsily trying to put its best foot forward, without referring to its history. the whole event, from first public manifestation to gaudy collapse, took less than two years: The Haight-Ashbury is teh first book to establish what happened, and when, to give a true understanding of the event.