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The San Francisco ORACLE

Audiobook edition of "The San Francisco ORACLE", an historical novella about Allen Cohen and the San Francisco Oracle, the revolutionary rainbow-colored underground newspaper that defined 1960s counterculture. Following a prophetic dream of rainbow newspapers circling the globe, Brooklyn poet Allen Cohen, and a close circle of friends, created the Oracle in 1966 Haight-Ashbury. For 18 months, this psychedelic publication didn't just report the consciousness revolution, it was a major feature of the revolution. Ultimately, the publication reached from Golden Gate Park to Viet Nam to Prague to Moscow. Through pioneering split-fountain printing that created actual rainbow pages, the Oracle helped organize the Human Be-In, sparked the Summer of Love, and transformed underground journalism forever. This three-act novella weaves real events and figures—Ginsberg, Leary, Watts—into Cohen's journey from Beat seeker to unlikely prophet. Based on extensive research, the story captures both the soaring idealism and tragic contradictions of the era, revealing how 12 issues of a rainbow newspaper presaged the digital media revolution by decades.

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