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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Timothy Leary: Add a description of this character.
- Allen Ginsberg
- Ken Kesey
- Billy Hitchcock
- Michael Hollingshead
- Aldous Huxley
- Hubbard
- Bob Dylan
- Jerry Rubin
- Scully
- Osmond
- Owsley
- Joanna
- Lennon
- Richard Alpert
- Cooke
- Kennedy
- Abbie Hoffman
- Gottlieb
- Richard Helms
- Johnson
- Cleaver
- Rosemary
- Isbell
- Bowen
- Harmon
- Olson
- Griggs
- Creasy
- Stark
- Martino
- Hoch
- Manson
- Kerouac
- Sinclair
- Cassady
- Hunter Thompson
Setting & Locations edit
- Millbrook
- North America
- Vietnam
- New York City
- California
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- United States
- Europe
- Berkeley
- Washington
- London
- Los Angeles
- Switzerland
- Haight
- Harvard
- Bay Area
- Canada
- Babylon
- Mexico
- Italy
- Southeast Asia
- Paris
- Dachau
- Texas
- Algiers
- Cambridge
- Maryland
- Sausalito
- India
- West Coast
- Bologna
- Michigan
- Laguna Beach
- Idylwild
- Palo Alto
- Vancouver
- Rome
- Afghanistan
- Lexington
First Sentence edit
In the spring of 1942 General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's wartime predecessor, assembled a half-dozen prestigious American scientists and asked them to undertake a top-secret research program.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Martin A. Lee (Author)
- Bruce Shlain (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Andrei Codrescu (Introduction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 306.1
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
- Books › History › Americas › United States
- Books › History › Historical Study › Social History
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Popular Culture
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Recovery › Alcoholism
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Recovery › Drug Dependency
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