Berkeley CA: University of California Press, Date: 1995. paperback. fine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4" 303 pages. "with a new introduction 1995. University of California Press ISBN 0520201221 9780520201224 [US]

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books. Very Good+. Date: 1969. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0520201221 . Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some beginning wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, there is also some light toning to the white portions of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter Culture which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s. He is generally credited with the first use of the term "counterculture". According to historian Todd Gitlin, "People were trying to figure out, 'What is this thing that has come upon us? ' He named it"." (from Wikipedia) . 1969. Anchor Books ISBN 0520201221 9780520201224 [US]

University of California Press, Date: 1995-10-18. Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Good paperback copy, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Markings, shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1995. University of California Press ISBN 0520201221 9780520201224 [US]

Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 0520201221 9780520201224 [GB]

ISBN10: 0520201221, ISBN13: 9780520201224, [publisher: University of California Press 1995-10-27, Berkeley] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0520201221, ISBN13: 9780520201224, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkerley] Softcover Paperback. When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy-the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on the evolution of counter culture since he coined the term in the sixties.Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society-all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian." Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, ...

Berkeley University of California Press 1995 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

University of California Press, Date: 1995-10-18. paperback. Used:Good. 1995. University of California Press ISBN 0520201221 9780520201224 [US]

ISBN10: 0520201221, ISBN13: 9780520201224, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkerley] Softcover Paperback. When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy-the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on the evolution of counter culture since he coined the term in the sixties.Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society-all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian." Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, ...
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University of California Press, Date: 1995-10-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1995. University of California Press ISBN 0520201221 9780520201224 [US]