Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD : the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 0802130623
- ISBN-13
- 9780802130624
- Series
- Acid Dreams
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Authors
- Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
Description
Provides a social history of how the CIA used the psychedelic drug LSD as a tool of espionage during the early 1950s and tested it on U.S. citizens before it spread into popular culture, in particular the counterculture as represented by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and others who helped spawn political and social upheaval.
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