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

Authors:

Bruce Shlain (author), Martin A. Lee (author) and Andrei Codrescu (introduction)

Language:

English

Original language:

English

Publisher:

Grove Press

Categories:

Drugs and history

Publication year:

1992

Original publication year:

1985

ISBN:

978-0-8021-3062-4

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.

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Table of Contents:

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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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