Book Club Selection

This is a book that caused a bit of a scene in my house while I was in high school. My father, a staunch Nixon-Republican, despised the hippies, yippies and anyone else who was left-thinking. When he found this book in the house he had a fit and destroyed it. I found it many years later (after Jerry Rubin turned corporate banker and died in a bazaar jaywalking accident) at a used bok sale, which was a fundraiser for a local scout troop. They did not have the book out. Instead, it was in a box off to the side, by some junk. I saw it and offered them $5 for the book (which was about $4 more than the going rate that day). One of the Scout leaders said I could buy it if I kept it in a paper bag and never told anyone that I bought it from the Scouts.

Needles to say, the book has aged - but provides a pretty good snapshot of the '60s revolution (browse while listening to "The Revolution Will Not be Televisied" by GSH... or maybe you beter not... that could induce acid flashbacks!)