The 1960’s in the UK and the US were fairly marked by the rise of the counterculture, as an anti-establishment movement and answer towards the political climate of the decade. London, New York, and San Francisco were three of the hub cities from where this cultural phenomenon and movement would spread on, only to be further enhanced by the American Civil Rights Movement and the much controversial US government military intervention in Vietnam. Appraised as one of the great American novelists and essayists of the 20-th century, Ken Kesey emerged as one of the best-known figures of this movement. His work was the missing link between the Beat Generation of the post-war 1950’s world, when the US youth identified itself only with decayed values