Off the Road and Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Literary History of the American Counterculture

In the years following World War II the Beat Generation began a literary revolution that changed American culture profoundly. Literature music fashion art... none of it would ever be the same again. The fifties and sixties were a vibrant time of social upheaval when art flourished against a turbulent backdrop. This optimism gave way to the cynicism of the seventies and another cultural transition most famously portrayed by writer Hunter S. Thompson.In this fun-yet-scholarly chapbook Mickey Harper explores the history of the American counterculture from Kerouac to Thompson and all the landmarks in between.