Acid dreams : the complete social history of LSD : the CIA, the sixties, and beyond
Martin A. Lee (Author), Bruce Shlain
Print Book, English, 1992
Rev. Evergreen ed View all formats and editions
Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1992
xxv, 345 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
9780802130624, 0802130623
1038707402
Introduction: Whose worlds are these? / Andrei Codrescu
Prologue
THE ROOTS OF PSYCHEDELIA
1. In the beginning there was madness..
The truth seekers
Enter LSD
Laboratoreis of the State
Midnight climax
The hallucination battlefield
2. Psychedelic pioneers
The original Captain Trips
Healing acid
Psychosis or gnosis?
3. Under the mushroom, over the rainbow
Manna from Harvard
Chemical crusaders
The crackdown
4. Preaching LSD
High surrealism
The psychedelic manual
The hard sell
5. The all-American trip
The great freak forward
Acid and the new left
ACID FOR THE MASSES
6. From hip to hippie
Before the deluge
Politics of the bummer
The first human be-in
7. The capital of forever
Stone free
The great summer dropout
8. Peaking in Babylon
A gathering storm
Magical politics
Gotta revolution
9. Season of the witch
Armed love
The acid brotherhood
Bad moon rising
10. What a field day for the heat
Prisoner of LSD
A bitter pill
The great LSD conspiracy
Postscript: Acid and after
"An Evergreen book"--Cover