Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
by Jim Newton
Description
Here Beside the Rising Tide traces how Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead became more than a band—turning their music into a living language for an American generation searching for meaning. Through vivid storytelling and cultural context, the book follows the forces that shaped the Dead’s rise and the ways their community of listeners found hope, resilience, and connection amid social change. It explores themes of creativity, spirituality without dogma, counterculture, and the enduring power of collective experience. With Jim Newton’s journalistic clarity and narrative momentum, this is an illuminating portrait of an era—and a reminder of how art can help people awaken to one another and to the world around them.
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paperback
Broadway
Published Jan 1, 2002
744 pages
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First Published
2015
Language
eng
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