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b'The year was 1969. Richard Nixon was in the White House. Neil Armstrong was on the Moon. And revolution was in the air. In that backdrop, 500,000 young people gathered on a mid-August weekend in upstate New York for the promise of three days of peace and music. What they experienced at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was something far greater. Mike Greenblatt knows. He was\\xa0there!\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nCelebrating \\u201cthe greatest peaceful event in history,\\u201d\\xa0Woodstock 50th\\xa0Anniversary: Back to\\xa0Yasgur\\u2019s\\xa0Farm\\xa0(Krause Publications) offers a dazzling and compelling front-row seat to the most important concert in rock history, an implausible happening filled with trials and triumphs that defined a generation.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nAuthor and Woodstock attendee Mike Greenblatt brilliantly captures the power of music\\u2019s greatest performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Santana, John Sebastian and the Who, while sharing stories both personal and audacious from the crowd of a half million strong who embraced not only the music but each other.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThe book features a Foreword by Country Joe McDonald, whose rousing solo acoustic version of \\u201cThe Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I\\u2019m-Fixin\\u2019-To-Die Rag\\u201d was one of the most memorable performances at Woodstock. Readers will enjoy interviews with such rock icons as Graham Nash, Carlos Santana, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, Edgar Winter, members of Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly & The Family Stone, Canned Heat, Sha Na\\xa0Na, co-host Chip Monck, fans and countless others. In addition, all 32 performances at the festival are showcased. Equal parts circus and surreal,\\xa0Woodstock 50th\\xa0Anniversary: Back to\\xa0Yasgur\\u2019s\\xa0Farm\\xa0tells a transcendent tale of a musical and mythical moment in time.'