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Timothy Leary : a biography / Robert Greenfield.

By: Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 689 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0151005001
  • 9780151005000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.92 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BF109.L43 G74 2006
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.
Summary: 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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Book Book NMC Library Stacks BF109 .L43 G74 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001293751

"A James H. Silberman Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Books and monographs by Timothy Leary": p. [609].

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.

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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