Timothy Leary : a biography / Robert Greenfield.
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 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.--Publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9780156032063
- ISBN: 0156032066
- ISBN: 0151005001
- ISBN: 9780151005000
- Physical Description: 689 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., [2006]
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A James H. Silberman Book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | "Books and monographs by Timothy Leary": page 609. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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Subject: | Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996. Psychologists > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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