How I Accidentally Started The Sixties
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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How I Accidentally Started The Sixties
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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How I Accidentally Started The Sixties

How I Accidentally Started The Sixties

by Howard Bloom
How I Accidentally Started The Sixties

How I Accidentally Started The Sixties

by Howard Bloom

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781947856042
Publisher: Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Publication date: 09/12/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 328
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue 9

How I Got Into This Mess to Begin With 13

From the Mouths of Murderers 16

All Hail to the King of Springfield Avenue 24

And Unto them a Child was Born 30

The Summer Camp Kidnap-And How It Backfired 45

The Case of the Family Snatching 62

Seized by Poetry 69

Sex Tries to Enter the Picture but Can't Seem to Drill through the Frame 82

The Chemical Coney Island of the Mind 95

Aerobics for the Gonads 102

No Right Turn on a Girl with Red Hair 117

The Cowboy and the Indian 120

The Fine Art of Nude Cliff Hanging, or From Muppet to Mountain Man in One Easy Lesson 126

The Night My Brain Was Issued a Speeding Ticket 148

Your Police Force-Keeping the World Safe for Insanity 156

Was Sisyphus a Sissy? 170

A Little B. F. Skinnering 199

The Joys of Living in a Closet 212

Nights in a Transvestite Dressing Room 219

The Dead Horse and the Magic Smile 225

Beware the Backseats of Autos without Brakes 235

The Daughter of the Omen 243

The Bear That Hunted Barbara's Dad 251

Fleeing from the Flames of Hell 261

How to Sleep with Your Girlfriend Under Her Mother's Nose 268

Mother of Five Runs off to Europe with Twenty-Three-Year Old Jazz Musician, Leaves Children with…Me? 281

The Summer of the Great Polygamy Experiment 290

Satori at Last 298

Epilogue 318

About the Author 321

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