Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale law professor, and Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone. Garcia was just thirty-one years old but already viewed--to his lasting dismay--as a social avatar for the new sensibility sweeping the land, an anarchist streak with a populist undercurrent that had roots in Ken Kesey's pranksters, the writers of the Beat Generation, and the libertine tradition of the American transcendentalists. In this interview, Garcia reveals how he is a combination of these and other influences, a high-school dropout and autodidact blessed with a gift for eloquent turns of phrase and a refreshing directness. He speaks of the saga of the Grateful Dead and his hoodlum youth growing up in San Francisco's Mission district. He delves into fascinating discourses on the music that shaped his own playing and writing, and freely discusses his use of drugs and explains why he felt it was important to stay high. Like the Grateful Dead's best music, Garcia: A Signpost to New Space is familiar, friendly, and inviting.

Garcia: A Signpost To New Space

Biographies & Memoirs

García, Jerry

Wenner, Jann

Reich, Charles

Arts & Literature

Da Capo

On the 25th anniversary of the publication of his mega-best seller The Greening of America (250,000 sold in hardcover and more than 2 million in paperback), Charles Reich offers a bold new appraisal of why America has lost its way and how it can rededicate itself to the pursuit of true prosperity for all its citizens.

Opposing the System

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Random House Value Publishing

The 25th Anniversary of the Groundbreaking Classic. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means."--from the new Preface by Charles A. Reich.

Greening of America

Mass market paperback, Bantam Books October 1977.Gently used.

The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef

Bantam]

The Greening of America

Environmental Studies, Ecology, Global Studies, American Studies, Economics, Philosophy, Law

THE GREENING OF AMERICA.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Allen Lane (1971)

The New Man offers colorful characters manipulating each other and the process for choosing a new superintendent of schools in an affluent eastern suburb. The action includes a student with a gun, controversy over a female rock group calling themselves "The Fallopians," conflict over the octopus of special education, and charges by powerful parents that a teacher abused their child. The climax provides a surprising choice of candidate in the search for - the new man.

THE NEW MAN

AuthorHouse

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