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Every revolution needs a good bar. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, that bar was the Del Rio. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ann Arbor morphed from a quiet, Republican university town to an epicenter of the counterculture and liberal-left politics. And the new Del Rio bar became the hangout for the newly Democratic City Council members; the anti-Vietnam-war activists, including the vocal Women's Strike for Peace, and the SDS; black power activists, gays and lesbians, women's libbersa whole range of uppity youthto strategize, booze and enjoy great jazz. Liberty, Equality, Consensus & All That Jazz social scientist/epidemiologist and former Del Rio owner Ernie Harburg shares the warts and all story of the social experiment that was this business establishment somehow, miraculously run by consensus, right down to hiring and firing.

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What the White Horse was to New York in the Fifties, the Del Rio was to Ann Arbor in the Sixties and the Seventies; the hipster's bar of choice. Harburg's memoir brings it all back: the bands, the brains, the booze, the fizzy mixture of high-mindedness and bad behavior. It was a magical place. I was happy to be part of it back in the day. -- Sara Moulton Author

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