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Beats & Buddhism: Beat Background

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David Halberstam’s The Fifties: “The Fear and the Dream” Part 1

David Halberstam’s The Fifties: “The Beat”

Alan Watts: It's Only a Game (on nonconformists/Beats)

It was the Stultifying 1950s that Provoked the 1960s Rebellions

The Beat Generation: An American Dream

The San Francisco Beat Poets

The Source (1999)

Pull My Daisy (1959)