Just a Shot Away

“ The most blisteringly impassioned music book of the season,” is an account of the Altamount festival—and the dark side of the sixties (New York Times Book Review). If Woodstock tied the ideals of the ‘60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away , Saul Austerlitz tells the story of “Woodstock West,” where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead the concert featured