How I Accidentally Started the Sixties - Part One

Amazon, 2007, Digital

Product Description

You or your parents lived it. I helped start it. And it was an accident. It's the era of myth, legend, sex, and extreme adventure called The Sixties.

Product Details

Title: How I Accidentally Started the Sixties - Part One
Sales Rank: 373262 in Books
Author: Howard Bloom
Publisher: Amazon, 2007-06-18, Digital, 35 pages

Customer Reviews

Another brilliant stroke from the pen of Howard Bloom...: Bloom has done it again. The man that produced such astounding works as "Lucifer Principle" and "Global Brain" has created yet another great tale of non-fiction, complete with his trademark of fluid-logic storytelling. Anyone who is a fan of the aforementioned books would do themselves a great favor by indulging in this new series. This first book was totally captivating, keeping… More reviews

The Blooming of Howard: For those familiar with Howard Bloom's earlier works, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, this will prove a delightful surprise. Here, he offers a comedic autobiographical account of his coming of age. A warning for literalists: If you're looking for precise causal mechanisms that attribute a social movement to the actions of one man, you won't find them here. A more… More reviews

Howard's Other Side: We all know Bloom the scientist. Here's Bloom the agitator - and writer. I'm particularly glad to learn the real secret behind what happened to America some forty years ago. This is a fun, sexy, provocative ride through a decade that really hasn't been shared properly until now. More reviews

The beauty of genius.: Howard Bloom is the heart and soul of science. He represents the deepest spiritual, personal, emotional profundity of the process of discovery and learning, and this book absolutely secures him, without a doubt, as the only person suited to speak to people at large on the matter. Endlessly witty, delightful, and gut-punchingly astonishing in its weightiness, How I Accidentally Started the 60s is one… More reviews

This guy can do anything.: I'm a huge fan of Bloom's science books, Global Brain and Lucifer Principle. Actually I consume all science books, and my two all-time favorites are the two I just mentioned, just above Consilience, The Selfish Gene, and The Blank Slate. So naturally I was interested in this. A humorous memoir? Hard to believe it's the same genius, except for the… More reviews