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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is a book written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster in 1998. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is about the 1970s Hollywood, a stand-alone period of American film which brought about films such as The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Star Wars, The Exorcist and The Last Picture Show. It follows Hollywood on the brink of the Vietnam War with a group of Hollywood film directors known as the "movie brats", beginning in the 1960s and ending in the 1980s.

The book was the basis of a 2003 eponymous documentary. [1]

People profiled or discussed in the book

• Robert Altman
• Hal Ashby
• Luke Askew
• Warren Beatty
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Brian DePalma
• Robert Evans
• Peter Fonda
• Francis Ford Coppola
• William Friedkin
• Dennis Hopper
• Amy Irving
• George Lucas
• Marcia Lucas
• John Milius
• Jack Nicholson
• Polly Platt
• Bob Rafelson
• Bert Schneider
• Paul Schrader
• Martin Scorsese
• Steven Spielberg
• Robert Towne