Counter Culture Writer Theodore Roszak Dies at 77
Theodore Roszak, the man who coined the term “counterculture” and wrote prodigiously on the topic, died last week of cancer in his Berkeley home. He was 77. Roszak was the author of the 1969 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, about hippy-era subcultures in the Bay Area.
From the LA Times obit:
Where some saw a chaos of protesting college radicals, hippie communards, Deadheads and drug pushers, Roszak saw a serious movement with possibly redeeming value, a youthful opposition to the “technocracy” that he said was at the root of problems such as war, poverty, racial disharmony and environmental degradation.
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