Literary PSA on a new book: Here Beside The Rising Tide

[John A]

I just finished a book that came out last year, Here Beside The Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, And An American Awakening by Jim Newton.

 

Ever since it was published 4 years after Jerry's passing, I've considered Blair Jackson's biography Garcia: An American Life the best book written on anything encompassing Jerry. Granted, Newton had an extra quarter century of archival and personal unearthing surrounding Garcia's and The Dead's story, but he took all that and hit it out of the park. Moreover, the book equally serves as a commentary of the literary, social, and political happenings surrounding Jerry's formative years and the Dead's ascension. 

 

I can't recommend this book highly enough.

[Ammagamalin Crew]

The Cincinnati Public Library has 8 copies, 6 available so I requested it. Thanks for the suggestion. The synopsis reads well 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Going to have to disagree with you on this one John A. I found the book to be extremely hard to get through until I started skimming through pages. Really, the last 100 pages have anything that keeps the interest to continue reading it. Way to much writing on politics and very little on Jerry and The Grateful Dead.  I don't recommend this book for the experienced deadhead, it's boring