The Beat The Hip & The Dead by veteran author Antonio Pineda is a fascinating, intelligent look into a time when the written word really meant something and all things - however out there - were possible. Pineda, a proud and original Beatster and Hippie poet/author/actor/bard tunes into the psychedelic roots of a time which changed the world forever. For all students and fans of everything that was good, true and colorful in the Summer of Love and beyond.