Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America (1987)










New York City: Macmillan (book, non-fiction), 1987.
8.5" x 5.75" x 1", 260 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-02-627670-4.

Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture that Changed America by Peter O. Whitmer and Bruce VanWyngarden, as published by Macmillan (New York City) in 1987. This book focuses on William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, and Hunter S. Thompson, describing biography and impact of each.

There are Burroughs references throughout.  Chapter 12, "There's No Place Like Home" is fully focused on Burroughs, pp. 103-130.

This book includes three images of William S. Burroughs and a reproduction of a letter from Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg with some calligraphic drawings.

This was acquired from Sag Harbor Books (Sag Harbor, New York).

Shoaf IV.123.

Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Fast Track to Yestermorrow: at Web Center [Timothy Leary, primarily]
  • 2. Timmyball in the U.S.A. [Timothy Leary]
  • 3. Timmyball in Denmark [Timothy Leary]
  • 4. Changing [Timothy Leary]
  • 5. The Beat Begins [Kerouac, Holmes, Cassady. Burroughs, Mailer, et al]
  • 6. The Electronic Mailer [Norman Mailer]
  • 7. Come Back, Jimmy Dean [James Dean, Norman Mailer]
  • 8. The Thinking Man's Lourdes [Michael Murphy, Dick Price, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson]
  • 9. Hunter S. Thompson #1: Rest in Peace [Hunter S. Thompson]
  • 10. Hunter S. Thompson #2: Prowling the Bat Tower [Hunter S. Thompson]
  • 11. December 1985 – and Back Again [Dennis Murphy, Ken Kesey]
  • 12. There's No Place Like Home [William S. Burroughs]
  • 13. The Beat Goes On [City Lights]
  • 14. Ginsberg: Take One [Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky]
  • 15. Ginsberg: Take Two: Rantings in Orono [Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, et al]
  • 16. Take Three: Ginsberg's World [Allen Ginsberg, Harry Smith, Lucien Carr]
  • 17. Take Four: The Sorcerer's Apprentice [Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, et al)
  • 18. The Six Years War [Berkeley, People's Park, Ken Kesey, The Grateful Dead]
  • 19. The Longreach Ranch [Brotherhood of Eternal Love]
  • 20. Always Going Beyond [Ken Kesey]
  • 21. The Whole-Earth Emperor: Counterculture in the 1980s? [Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh]
  • 22. The Big Empty [Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh]
  • 23. The Post-Modernist Outlaw Intellectual [Tom Robbins]
  • 24. Somewhere in America
  • Index

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