Considering the Powerful US Protest Art of the 1970s

Jack Kerouac; William Burroughs; Paul McCartney; Allen Ginsberg; Charles Bukowski. The list of genre-defining figures – whether poets, artists, writers or musicians – that English author Barry Miles has written about over the years reads like a who’s who of 1960s and 70s counterculture. Perhaps more fascinating, however, is that Miles lived this era first, and wrote about it second – almost all of his literary subjects having been real-life friends and acquaintances…