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The Sixties Diary
by Peter Vincent
140 pages
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A diary kept during the Summer of Love.
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Category: Biography
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About the Book
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The Sixties
Diary depicts my experience during the Summer of Love and
continues into the anti-war movement.
I began the diary in a 96-page copybook several days after I arrived
in San Francisco to start my graduate degree in creative writing
at San Francisco State.
All this fit the literary life I hoped to begin rather than the
voyage I was about to embark on.
The excitement was irresistible. I was 22 and ready for changes.
It was fun, terrifying, sexy, crazed.
Filled with acid trips, drug dealers, Draft dodgers, runaways, Hare
Krishnas, Hell's Angels, gangsters, Black Panthers, the Grateful
Dead, Janis Joplin, and the Jefferson Airplane, the love story at
the core of the diary, along with letters from a cousin in Vietnam,
display the range of passions young people faced at the time.
Periodic references to the number of war dead, accelerating Draft
calls, riots in the cities, the Six-Day War -- all suggest a world
coming apart at the seams.
But for one brief moment the Summer of Love sprang forth.
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About the Author |
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Peter Vincent left Philadelphia on a momentous trip across country in May of 1967 to arrive in San Francisco as the Summer of Love was just getting underway. The Sixties Diary is an actual diary he kept in the course of those events. He has continued to live and write in San Francisco ever since. |
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