Timothy Leary : a biography

Greenfield, Robert.

Book 2006

The first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America. 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 institute...

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ISBN:

9780151005000
0151005001

Edition:

First edition

Description:

689 pages : illustrations, portraits

Notes:

"A James H. Silberman Book."
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Dreaming of heroes : Springfield, Massachusetts, 1920-1938
The long gray line : West Point, New York, June 1940-August 1941
The Berkeley circle : Berkeley, California, 1941-1958
God and man at Harvard : Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1963
Xanadu : Millbrook, New York, 1963-1968
Come together : California, 1968-1970
Escape and flight : San Luis Obispo, California, March-September 1970
Exile-no silence, no cunning : Algeria, Switzerland, Afghanistan, September 1970 to January 1973
Folsom Prison blues : California, January 1973-May 1976
To live and die in LA : California, June 1976-May 31, 1996

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2005030154

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133954

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