Timothy Leary
a biography
1st ed.
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Word Count
172,250 words, Guess
Page Count
689 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3414003M
- ISBN-139780151005000
- ISBN-100151005001
- OCLC Control Number62127831
- OCLC Control Numbertimothylearybiog00gree
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005030154
- Goodreads123699
- LibraryThing1080109
Classifications
- DDC150.92
- LCCBF109.L43 G74 2006
Description
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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- Biography.
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