Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
A Sociology, Nonfiction, History book. acid has no implicit moral direction. Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA,...
Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and 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 l950s and 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 and helped spawn a political and 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 and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history. "Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing." - Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation; "Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations." - Los Angeles Daily News; "An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule...
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- Pages: 343 pages
- ISBN: 9780802130624 / 802130623
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acid has no implicit moral direction. Martin A. Lee, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Wow. This book blew my mind, and I'm not saying that ironically. ;)Because I was born in the 80's, the only things I heard about the 60's were: drugs, hippies, bad. Sure, I knew from some of my history classes there were protests, the Vietnam war, rock and roll music (which I also favored in high school and still do to this day). But... The history of LSD is full of fascinating characters and episodes, and this book covers it very well. It gives an accessible, comprehensive and well-researched overview of the culture surrounding acid from its discovery and early studies in the 1950s to the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s. It's an enlightening read, and a very fun... Lively and almost unbelievable in spots. I can't help but think it's what's sometimes called a limited hangout -- where one juicy story is told as a cover for a darker, potentially more damaging one. Why did government scientists turn rogue thieves and LSD turn-on zealots, and why did they suffer little consequence for these actions?...
