Counterculture Heavyweights
Beatniks, Hippies, Artists and Stars
Certain creative types made names for themselves in post-war America as rebels against the status quo. With all-American war hero Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, these cultural expatriates discovered each other in San Francisco or New York's Greenwich Village, experimented with drugs and alternative lifestyles -- and sometimes published works of great renown. Here are a few of these legends of the American counterculture.