Full name: Timothy Leary: A Biography

Author: Robert Greenfield Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780151005000 0151005001

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism and the hedonism of an age of revolutionary change. Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America. Similar books: Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Tom by Lyle Leverich The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan The Kindness of Strangers by Donald Spoto Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning Eudora Welty by Suzanne Marrs A Rage to Live by Mary S. Lovell Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton