Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain

Acid Dreams (eBook, ePUB)

The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"An engrossing account" of the history of LSD, the psychedelic 1960s, and the clandestine mind games of the CIA (William Burroughs). Beginning with the discovery of LSD in 1943, this "monumental social history of psychedelia" tracks the most potent drug known to science-from its use by the government during the paranoia of the Cold War to its spill-over into a revolutionary antiestablishment recreation during the Vietnam War-setting the stage for one of the great ideological battles of the decade ( The Village Voice). In the intervening years, the CIA launched a massive covert research program in the hope that LSD would serve as an espionage weapon; psychiatric pioneers came to believe that acid would shed light on the perplexing problems of mental illness; and a new generation of writers and artists in countercultural transition sought to break the "mind-forged manacles" of cultural repression-among them, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, the Beatles, Allen Ginsberg, William Mellon Hitchcock, and Abbie Hoffman. Painting an indelible portrait of an unforgettable era and using startling information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Acid Dreams also exposes one of the most bizarre, shocking, and often tragic episodes in American history. "An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era." -John Sayles "Marvelously detailed...loaded with startling revelations." - Los Angeles Daily News

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802196064
• Artikelnr.: 38219952

Autorenporträt

Martin A. Lee's writing has been translated and published in numerous foreign periodicals, including Le Monde Diplomatique and L'Evenement du Jeudi (Paris), New Statesman, Index on Censorship (London), Aktuelt (Copenhagen), Humo (Brussels), Sydsvenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), Vrij Nederland (Amsterdam), Avvenimenti, Il Manifesto (Rome), and Die Tageszeitung (Berlin). Lee has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois. He has lectured widely at colleges and universities including Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and the American University in Paris. As an undergraduate student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Lee won four Hopwood awards for creative writing.

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Praise

"Engaging throughout. . . . At once entertaining and disturbing."-Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation

"Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations."-Los Angeles Daily News

"Excellent. . . . Captivating. . . . A generalist's history that should replace all others."-San Francisco Chronicle

"A landmark contribution to the sociopolitical history of the U.S. . . . Some of the liveliest, most absorbing, best-documented historical analyses to appear in recent years. . . . A seminal contribution to understanding America's most turbulent modern decade."-Choice

"This funny and irreverent book brings it all back."-The Washington Post

"Recounts some of the most bizarre incidents in the history of U.S. intelligence."-The Boston Globe

"A monumental social history of psychedelia."-The Village Voice

"A blistering exposé of CIA drug experimentation on Americans. It's all there."-John Stockwell

"Highly readable. . . . Well researched. . . . Filled with entertaining and bizarre episodes."-The Detroit Free Press

"An important study of cultural history. . . . The scholarship is exquisite and the methods sensible."-Allen Ginsberg

"An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life."-William S. Burroughs

"A missing link, a work of combat history, a devastating combination of facts and poetry that is bound to arouse controversy."-Paul Krassner

"An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era."-John Sayles