Historian Theodore Roszak is the author of 15 works of nonfiction, including his 1969's classic study, The Making of a Counter Culture, and of five novels. He and his wife and occasional coauthor, Betty, live in Berkeley, California.

Last fall when Second Journey branched out in a seemingly unlikely direction with the serial online publication of The Making of an Elder Culture, we had no way of knowing our publishing initiative would spark such enthusiasm and avid interest from both loyal and new readers of our Web site. Most popular books on the subject of aging have been written by doctors, gerontologists, fitness trainers, or financial planners — as if all that mattered in life beyond a certain age was fending off disease and being comfortably retired. Theodore Roszak’s book was nothing like that. It was, rather, “an exercise in practical nostalgia whose purpose is to track the baby-boom generation from counter culture to elder culture.”

The resoundingly favorable response and the clear merits of the Roszak's book caught the interest of a commercial publisher, and we were pleased to announce in March — at the time the final installment of the book was posted to our Web site — that New Society Publishers will be releasing a paperback edition this September. This will make the book much more available and increase the likelihood that it can spark a broad public conversation of the important issues which it raises.