![]() You note three themes underlying the American hippie experience: authenticity, individualism and community. During my research, I realized that the counterculture’s multiple legacies truly did reshape American culture. As a social historian, I became interested decades ago in this odd social movement. ![]() Hippies surged into prominence in the late ’60s and then declined. W.R.: In the 1960s I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the flower power epicenter, and while I was never a hippie, one of my best friends from high school spent 13 years living a countercultural life. “American Hippies” is an engaging and thorough history of the counterculture movement in the United States and its cultural and political ramifications, in the 1960s and to this day. He answered a few questions about his latest book, “ American Hippies,” published by Cambridge University Press. ![]() William Rorabaugh is a University of Washington professor of history and author of several books. “American Hippies,” by William Rorabaugh, published by Cambridge University Press.
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