| Full title |
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond [permalink] |
| Language |
English |
| Authors |
Bruce Shlain (author), Martin A. Lee (author) and Andrei Codrescu (introduction) |
| Publisher |
Grove Press |
| Categories |
Drugs and history |
| Publication year |
1992 |
| Original publication year |
1985 |
| ISBN |
978-0-8021-3062-4 [Amazon, B&N, Abe, Powell's] |
| Pages |
345 |
| Synopsis |
This book gives a really good and detailed story of LSD, the drug of the sixties. If you want to get a general overview of that part of history without too many extraneous details, go for this book. It was written in 1986, which gives it some distance from the events described. |
| Structure |
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- Introduction: Whose Worlds Are These? By Andrei Codrescu
- Prologue
Part One: The Roots of Psychedelia
1. In the Beginning There Was Madness...
- The Truth Seekers
- Enter LSD
- Laboratories 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
Part Two: 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
- Afterword
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
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