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An actor looks back on his journey through the West Coast counterculture of the sixties and seventies, offering blunt but affectionate portraits of his fellow activists and hippies and unnostalgically assessing the costs of hedonism and libertinism. IP.
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Actor Peter Coyote has always managed to embrace the times he has lived in. In the sixties this included the exhilarating highs of breaking the rules of staid, status-conscious America. It also included the material and spiritual wear that a personal and thorough research of drugs can produce. In this memoir, Coyote relives his fifteen-year ride through the heart of the counterculture - a journey that took him from the quiet rooms of privilege as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the riotous life of political street theater and the self-imposed poverty of West Coast communal movements.
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