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

Authors: Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781511383547 1511383542

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 1950s 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. Similar books: Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens Political Tribes by Amy Chua Can't Find My Way Home by Martin Torgoff A Question of Torture by Alfred W. McCoy A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit The Big Sort by Bill Bishop The Pursuit of Oblivion by Richard Davenport-Hines LSD by Albert Hofmann Opium by Barbara Hodgson Opium by Martin Booth The Politics of Ecstasy by Timothy Leary The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld None of Us Were Like This Before by Joshua E. S. Phillips Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff