Dennis McNally

Author, Historian and Music Publicist

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    • The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
    • Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews
    • On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
    • A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
    • Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation & America
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The Last Great Dream, by Dennis McNally

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
 
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Hey now! I have a new book coming out May 13th on Da Capo – available at all your better independent bookstores (I hope!). It’s called The Last Great Dream / How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties. Check it out!

Release Date: 5/13/2025
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Upcoming Appearances

Not being too shy and being genuinely interested in what I've written about, I've always enjoyed going out and talking with people about these subjects.  So check back here from time to time...I may very well be passing by thiiiis close to your house. Nowadays, authors don’t do too many personal appearances, but I’ll be out there…we’re kicking it off in San Francisco on the 15th, and there will be more – not sure where or when just … Get the Schedule

Jerry on Jerry - The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews

Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews

Jerry Garcia was the most remarkable mind and personality that I (and a lot of other people) ever encountered – the most curious, the most articulate, … Read More

On Highway 61 ~ Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

Why did America turn itself inside out in the 1960s, get so nuts that the culture wars that started then are still being fought in 2015?  … Read More

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America, biography by Dennis McNally

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation & America

If you have no idea of your roots, your past, it’s hard to see where you’re going. So in 1972, still feeling part of the ‘60s, I looked back to the ‘50s … Read More

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, by Dennis McNally

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

“Be careful of what you wish for – you might just get it.”   And I did…no regrets.  After wanting to write the history of the Grateful Dead for … Read More

Dennis McNally

Me and the Music Biz

For the music-business part, feel free to scroll down to the bottom! My Godfather the Pentagon I was born to an Army counter-intelligence operative … Read More

Recent Blog Posts

  • Returning from the Writing Zone
  • Another Opening, Another Show…
  • On Highway 61 wins prestigious ASCAP music writing award!
  • What I was so mysterious about
  • Making Great Music — Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

Contact Dennis McNally

Hiya. I welcome inquiries about either music p.r. work (although it makes most sense if your type of music is in the general neighborhood of what I’ve been doing) or stuff related to these books. … Contact Me

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