Books by W. J. (University of Washington) Rorabaugh

In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices.

Explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was president. The early Sixties was a period of marked political, social and cultural change. The old was swept away, and the country that the United States became began to be born.