NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1968). Wolfe's landmark account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and their bus trip across the country. An example of, and perhaps the epitome of, the "New Journalism" that Wolfe helped to bring about in the Sixties; it was called at the time "the most penetrating piece of writing yet done on the ethos and dynamics of the hippie," and it remains a classic of the time, and the most definitive, sympathetic and insightful account of the seminal events of the 1960s counterculture -- the cross-country bus trip and the LSD-fueled gatherings -- "acid tests" -- that defined the Bay Area counterculture community in the mid-1960s, when LSD was still legal. Mild fading to top edge and a bit of sunning to the edges; a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear and small corner chips. [#032334] SOLD