A wide-sweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, "Orange Sunshine" explores how America moved from the era of peace and love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia. b&w photos throughout.

Reviews

"Nicholas Schou manages -- amazingly -- to penetrate four decades of silence....The result is a mind-blowing scrap of found history, like something buried deep in the earth -- and you cannot avert your eyes....With "Orange Sunshine," Schou has crafted a definitive history of the dark side of the 1960s."--"Los Angeles Times""'Orange Sunshine, ' is as close to an 'authorized' story as there's likely to be. Much of it reads more like fiction than history....the Brotherhood's story reads like some mystical adventure tale from a long-gone era. But for a peek at those heady times, 'Orange Sunshine' is one worthy flashback."--"San Francisco Chronicle"

"Journalist Nicholas Schou did yeoman's work digging into the story of the band of hippies that became a huge LSD cartel in the 1970s. He interviewed many former members, some of them not that happy to be found, earning their trust over some four years."--"San Diego Union-Tribune"

"Schou interviewed remaining Brotherhood members (who, unl