The Making of a Counter Culture  

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Theodor Roszak's The Making of a Counter Culture was a much discussed, best selling interpretation of the turbulent sixties in the United States.

Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society--all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian."

See also

• North American counterculture
• American culture
• counterculture

Bibliography

• Theodor Roszak (1970) The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition.