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The 60s Communes

Hippies and Beyond
By: Timothy Miller
Narrated by: James Killavey
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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The greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture apart from the established society. Widely believed by the larger public to be sinks of drug-ridden sexual immorality, the communes both intrigued and repelled the American people. The intentional communities of the 1960s era were far more diverse than the stereotype of the hippie commune would suggest. A great many of them were religious in basis, stressing spiritual seeking and disciplined lifestyles. Others were founded on secular visions of a better society. Hundreds of them became so stable that they survive today. This book surveys the broad sweep of this great social yearning from the first portents of a new type of communitarianism in the early 1960s through the waning of the movement in the mid-1970s.

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Critic Reviews

"Miller has done a great service: there are precious few scholarly treatments of the movement - nearly all the existing material on 1960s communalism was published before 1975. An important acquisition; recommended for academic and theological libraries." ( Library Journal)

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opened my eyes a little well done and thanks

very well done, gave me insight to a much different time that we should all really be looking at

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