Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture

As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies.


Author: Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 11/10/2017
Pages: 452
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781538111116
ISBN10: 153811111X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | Social History
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author
Robert C. Cottrell has written over twenty books, including biographies of the radical journalist I. F. Stone, ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin, and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He is the author most recently of Two Icons: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball and America. Cottrell, professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, has also taught in London; Puebla, Mexico; and Moscow, Russia, in the latter instance as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He is currently working on a collective biography of four key members of the early twentieth-century American left: Crystal Eastman, John Reed, Inez Milholland, and Randolph Bourne.