With a bold new perspective, Happily Hippie-American rethinks Hippies, explaining how they

didn't end with the 1960s; rather, we exist today as a thriving ethnicity (with unusual ethnic

origins). Also, Hippie parents are often having Hippie kids and grandkids—generational transfer.

Over ten percent of today's US population is Hippie-American, from toddlers to seniors—over 30

million people. Hippiedom has been a boon to humanity: we invented the Personal Computer.

We helped bring down the Iron Curtain. We created the natural/organic-foods and "adventure

gear" industries and that hybrid of East-West healing called Integrative Medicine. We started

the Greening of America. We are a huge presence in Hollywood—everyone from Jennifer

Aniston to Woody Harrelson to Shailene Woodley to Quentin Tarantino. We are the driving force

behind today's highly successful Legalization (of cannabis) Movement. We are so accomplished

that if Hippiedom were an individual, we would call that person "the genius of the age." But,

alas, we suffer from "social invisibility"; we have been targeted by neoconservatism and its War

on Drugs, and we exist as an oppressed minority of disrespected, second-class citizens. We

need our own civil-rights organization and Happily Hippie-American shows us how we might do

that—for the good of ourselves and the larger nation.