Download or read book Beneath the Diamond Sky written by Barney Hoskyns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Haight Ashbury in the years 1965-1970, the period The Haight emerged as the Mecca of the countercultural scene. The book begins with a cultural and visual history of this eight-block-wide area during the Beat period, which created the aesthetic for the psychedelic era that followed. It ends with the defining moment of the Altamont Festival.