California Split

California Split: Racing through the Sixties is a memoir of living through the turbulent sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area with detours to the Peace Corps, the Army, New York, and Europe. Mr. Brown was on the scene when it was all going down'the anti-Vietnam war protests, the race riots, acid rock, the sexual revolution and the hippie invasion of the Haight Ashbury. All in all, a panoramic and satisfying read of the 1960s as witnessed by one young man coming of age. pp 500