Revisiting the Summer of Love

The images and the music of the summer of 1967 endure, but some would say the hopes and dreams of the counter-culture died with that summer. Midmorning talks with a music critic and a historian about the music, the mayhem, and the meaning of the summer of love.

Guests

• Maurice Isserman: Professor of history at Hamilton College and the co-author of "America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s."
• Joel Selvin: Senior pop music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of "The Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Time in the Wild West."

Resources

• About Maurice Isserman
• Summer of Love: Forty Years Later
• Whitney Museum Summer of Love exhibit