LSD, Ecstasy, and a Blast of Utopianism: How 1967’s “Summer of Love” All Began

Click here to read “Suddenly That Summer” by Sheila Weller from July 2012’s Vanity Fair.

It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America on to a whole new age?