Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: the LSD-slinging graffiti writers of Central Park, the Dead-loving AI scientists of Stanford, utopian Whole Earth homesteaders, black market chemists, government-wanted Anonymous hackers, rogue explorers, East Village bluegrass pickers, spiritual seekers, Internet pioneers, entrepreneurs, pranksters, pioneering DJs, and a nation of Deadheads. WFMU DJ and veteran music writer Jesse Jarnow draws on extensive new firsthand accounts from many never-before-interviewed subjects and a wealth of deep archival research to create a comic-book-colored and panoramic American landscape, taking readers for a guided tour of the hippie highway filled with lit-up explorers, peak trips, big busts, and scenic vistas, from Vermont to the Pacific Northwest, from the old world head capitals of San Francisco and New York to the geodesic dome-dotted valleys of Colorado and New Mexico. And with the psychedelic research moving into the mainstream for the first time in decades, Heads also recounts the story of the quiet entheogenic revolution that for years has been brewing resiliently in the Dead's Technicolor shadow. Featuring over four dozen images, many never before seen-including pop artist Keith Haring's first publicly sold work-Heads weaves one of the 20th and 21st centuries' most misunderstood subcultures into the fabric of the nation's history. Written for anyone who wondered what happened to the heads after the Acid Tests, through the '70s, during the Drug War, and on to the psychedelic present, Heads collects the essential history of how LSD, Deadheads, tie-dye, and the occasional bad trip have become familiar features of the American experience.

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America

Arts & Photography

Jarnow, Jesse

Music

Da Capo

The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger's unlikely band of folk heroes, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts, and the harassment campaign that brought them down. Exploring how a pop group's harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI, Wasn't That a Time turns the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color, using the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People's Songs, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons, pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool. Using previously unseen journals and letters, unreleased recordings, once-secret government documents, and other archival research, Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes, incredible pressures, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers. In an era defined by a sharp political divide that feels all too familiar, the Weavers became heroes. With a class- and race-conscious global vision that now makes them seem like time travelers from the twenty-first century, the Weavers became a direct influence on a generation of musicians and listeners, teaching the power of eclectic songs and joyous, participatory harmonies.

Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: black market chemists, the LSD-slinging graffiti writers of Central Park, the Grateful Dead-loving AI scientists of Stanford, utopian Whole Earth homesteaders, government-wanted Anonymous hackers, rogue explorers, East Village bluegrass pickers, spiritual seekers, Internet pioneers, entrepreneurs, pranksters, pioneering DJs, and a nation of Deadheads. Drawing on extensive new firsthand accounts from many never-before-interviewed subjects and a wealth of deep archival research, music writer and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow takes readers on a panoramic tour of a comic-book-colored American landscape. And with psychedelic research moving into the mainstream for the first time in decades, Heads also recounts the story of the quiet entheogenic revolution that for years has been brewing resiliently in the Dead's Technicolor shadow. Featuring over four dozen images, Heads weaves one of the 20th and 21st centuries' most misunderstood subcultures into the fabric of the nation's history.

Heads

A biography of Cincinnati Reds' catcher, Johnny Bench, who won ten Gold Glove awards and hit almost 400 home runs in his sixteen-year career in the major leagues.

Johnny Bench (Baseball Hall of Famers)

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Rosen Central

The expansion of steel, oil, and the railroad industries during and after the Civil War helped America to grow and change. Millions of people were immigrating to the United States from Europe and Asia, altering the size and face of the population. Looking for work and for a better life, they found a country in the midst of an economic revolution. Owners of new, big businesses became a new wealthy class; their workers, many of whom were the same immigrants who came looking for a better life, became the new working poor.

Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Businesses in the Late 1800s (America's Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century)

History

Rosen Young Adult

Examines the history of communication in the United States, particularly the technological advances of the late nineteenth century that improved transmission speed from weeks or months to hours or minutes.

Telegraph and Telephone Networks (America's Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century)

Phillis Wheatley: African American Poet (Primary Sources Of Famous People In American History)

A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.

Phillis Wheatley: African American Poet (Primary Sources of Famous People in American History)

Moriarty, J. T.

Rosen Pub. Group

Examines the history of business in the United States during the 1800s, discussing the growth of railroads, and the innovations in the oil and steel industries.

Children's Books

Telegraph and Telephone Networks: Groundbreaking Developments in American Communications (America's Industrial Society in the 19h Century)

Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Business in the Late 1800s (Primary Sources of America's Industrial Society in the 19th)

Business & Money

Industries

Rosen Classroom

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Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America

Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America

Heads

Johnny Bench (Baseball Hall of Famers)

Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Businesses in the Late 1800s (America's Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century)

Telegraph and Telephone Networks (America's Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century)

Phillis Wheatley: African American Poet (Primary Sources of Famous People in American History)

Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Businesses in the Late 1800s (America's Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century)

Telegraph and Telephone Networks: Groundbreaking Developments in American Communications (America's Industrial Society in the 19h Century)

Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Business in the Late 1800s (Primary Sources of America's Industrial Society in the 19th)