On the 50th anniversary of the band’s creation, Richardson’s book delineates why the Grateful Dead became a legendary band. It is a vivid account of the Dead’s colorful history based on new research, interviews and material from the Dead archives, giving us new insight into everything from acid tests to the band’s formation of their own record label to their massive late career success, while probing the riddle of the Dead’s vast and durable appeal.
No Simple Highway—A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
By Peter Richardson
(hardcover) $26.99
