How I Accidentally Started The Sixties
Published on 12. September 2017
328 pages
978-1-947856-04-2 (ISBN)
Description
Before Timothy Leary, before free love, before the word hippie became a part of the preferred nomenclature, Howard Bloom and his band of explorers were pushing boundaries and minds. Embarking on a great journey that took him from his home in Buffalo, NY, to Washington, to California, to Israel, to New York City, along the way learning much and gaining in experience?some of that experience crushing the morals and mores of the previous generation?and most importantly, he gained insight. Bloom horrified his parents, shocked his teachers, seeking the form of spiritual enlightenment called satori, and finding sex instead. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties is the untold story of the birth of a decade.
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Person
Howard Bloom was a legendary publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Styx. Since then, he has published six books on human evolution and group behavior, including The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle. In his varied career, Bloom has been cited, thanked, anthologized, and quoted in books on quantum physics, genetics, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and much more. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties may be his strangest book yet.
Content
- Intro
- PROLOGUE-LIFTING TIMOTHY LEARY
- HOW I GOT INTO THIS MESSTO BEGIN WITH
- FROM THE MOUTHS OF MURDERERS
- ALL HAIL TO THE KING OF SPRINGFIELD AVENUE
- AND UNTO THEM A CHILD WAS BORN
- THE SUMMER CAMP KIDNAP-AND HOW IT BACKFIRED
- THE CASE OF THE FAMILY SNATCHING
- SEIZED BY POETRY
- SEX TRIES TO ENTER THE PICTUREBUT CAN'T SEEM TO DRILL THROUGH THE FRAME
- THE CHEMICAL CONEY ISLANDOF THE MIND
- AEROBICS FOR THE GONADS
- NO RIGHT TURN ON A GIRL WITH RED HAIR
- THE COWBOY AND THE INDIAN
- THE FINE ART OF NUDE CLIFF HANGING,or FROM MUPPET TO MOUNTAIN MANIN ONE EASY LESSON
- THE NIGHT MY BRAIN WAS ISSUEDA SPEEDING TICKET
- YOUR POLICE FORCE-KEEPING THE WORLD SAFE FOR INSANITY
- WAS SISYPHUS A SISSY?
- A LITTLE B. F. SKINNERING
- THE JOYS OF LIVING IN A CLOSET
- NIGHTS IN A TRANSVESTITEDRESSING ROOM
- THE DEAD HORSE AND THE MAGIC SMILE
- BEWARE THE BACKSEATS OF AUTOSWITHOUT BRAKES
- THE DAUGHTER OF THE OMEN
- THE BEAR THAT HUNTED BARBARA'S DAD
- FLEEING FROM THE FLAMES OF HELL
- HOW TO SLEEP WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND UNDER HER MOTHER'S NOSE
- MOTHER OF FIVE RUNS OFF TO EUROPEWITH TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JAZZMUSICIAN, LEAVES CHILDREN WITH.ME?
- THE SUMMER OFTHE GREAT POLYGAMY EXPERIMENT
- SATORI AT LAST
- EPILOGUE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
