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Acid Dreams

The Complete Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties & Beyond

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Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD & the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched & astonishing account--part of it gleaned from secret government files-- tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s & launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture. Here LSD had a profound impact & helped spawn a political & social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg & many others, Acid Dreams provides an important & entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history.

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Acid Dreams, Bruce Shlain, Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain; Introduction by Andrei Codrescu

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Tytuł
Acid Dreams
Podtytuł
The Complete Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties & Beyond
Język
angielski
Wydawca
Pan
Rok wydania
2001
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
384
ISBN10
0330484818
ISBN13
9780330484817
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Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD & the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched & astonishing account--part of it gleaned from secret government files-- tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s & launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture. Here LSD had a profound impact & helped spawn a political & social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg & many others, Acid Dreams provides an important & entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history.