The San Francisco ORACLE: Allen Cohen's Rainbow Dream

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by Lorenzo Hagerty Esq

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A 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 became the revolution, reaching 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.

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