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"Garcia: An American Life is the first comprehensive biography of the late leader and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia (1942-1995). Garcia's saga courses through some of the most fascinating epochs of postwar American history: From the flowering of Haight-Ashbury through Woodstock and Altamont, the Dead became synonymous with the libertine values of the late'60s counterculture, and Garcia was widely recognized as the group's musical and spiritual leader."--BOOK JACKET. "Though many of his fans, the Deadheads, nearly deified Garcia, his personal life showed his all-too-human…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2000Penguin Books · 520 pages · 9780140291995
- Hardcover · English · 1999Viking Adult · 640 pages · 9780670886609
- Other · English · 2000Penguin Publishing Group · 9780786507108
Rock musiciansGrateful Dead (Musical group)BiographyGarcia, jerry, 1942-1995