The Haight: Love, Rock, And Revolution

"Photographer Jim Marshall was a short man with a huge profile in the music industry (and, full disclosure, a friend). Before his death in 2010, he’d spent five decades photographing anyone who was anyone in rock, pop and jazz. But as a San Franciscan, he also documented the counterculture revolution that flourished in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan are among those who show up in this chronicle of the neighborhood’s glory days, assembled from the huge photo archive Marshall left behind. Writer Joel Selvin puts readers in the middle of everything with a detailed history of what the Haight looked, sounded and, yeah, smelled like in the era whose apex was the Summer of Love."