PETER RICHARDSON is an author and lecturer in the humanities department at San Francisco State University and outgoing chair of the California Studies Association. Before that, he was an editor at the Public Policy Institute of California, a think-tank based in San Francisco; a tenured English professor at the University of North Texas; and an acquisitions editor at Harper & Row, Publishers. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco. His previous book, A Bomb in Every Issue, recounts the rise and fall of Ramparts magazine.
"Richardson writes with enthusiasm....He paints the Dead as a utopian experiment in a long American tradition." --Harper's Magazine"While Dead devotees will revel in the wealth of biographical details here, every reader interested in music and its social repercussions will find Richardson's work both captivating and instructive." --Booklist"[A] far-ranging look at the ultimate jam band in the acid-drenched context of their formative years." --Kirkus"An exhaustively researched and entertaining cultural history of one of the most successful yet resolutely iconoclast musical groups ever." --Shelf Awareness"The psycho-socio-musical experiment that was the Grateful Dead packed a unique complexity and sheer substantiality into their ongoing if occasionally bumbling attempts to recast the American dream. In No Simple Highway, Peter Richardson deftly applies a clear-eyed, insightful, and wide-ranging vision in explicating the reasons that a gaggle of stoned musicians was able to generate one of the most enduring communities in American social history." --Dennis McNally, G.D. historian and author, On Highway 61/Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom "Training his eye through the telescope of cultural history, Peter Richardson's entertaining and well-researched No Simple Highway reveals the valleys, craters, and mountains of the moonscape that comprise the history of the Grateful Dead." --Peter Conners, author of Growing Up Dead and JAMerica"No Simple Highway is a rare combination of excellent research and move-it-along readability. This is a book to return to, again and again." --Rosie McGee, Author/Photographer, Dancing with the Dead--A Photographic Memoir
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