“Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll” is a museum exhibit in San Francisco

It is one of the great contradictions of the American psyche that we embrace nostalgia but shun history. The 1960s are the perfect example of that paradox. We have learned all the easy lessons of that era, whether from Barry Goldwater or Jerry Garcia, while largely neglecting a sober, self-critical assessment of that age, when so…

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