The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test

1989
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test

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  • Author: Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher: Random House
  • ISBN: 0552993662
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 371

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

2008-08-19
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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  • Author: Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 1429961147
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 436

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism. This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day. "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the psychedelic 1960s.

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

2009-11-24
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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  • Author: Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 1429961031
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 370

"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism. "This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

2009-09-29
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

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  • Author: Aldous Huxley
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061892823
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 189

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York Times Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," now included for the first time.

I Celebrate Myself

2007-09-25
I Celebrate Myself

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  • Author: Bill Morgan
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780143112495
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 724

In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

1988-04-01
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

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  • Author: Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 1429961228
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

"When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me Decade."

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

2010-04-01
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

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  • Author: Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 142996118X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 141

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program's money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.

The First Third

1971-12
The First Third

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  • Author: Neal Cassady
  • Publisher: City Lights Books
  • ISBN: 9780872860056
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.

The Purple Decades

1982-10
The Purple Decades

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  • Author: Tom Wolfe
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0374239282
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 418

This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

Acid Christ

2010
Acid Christ

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  • Author: Mark Christensen
  • Publisher: IPG
  • ISBN: 1936182009
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 457

From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who described himself as "too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," this account conducts a mesmerizing journey from the perspective of Mark Christensen, an eventual member of the Kesey "flock." Featuring interviews with those within his inner circle, this exploration reveals the bestselling author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in his many forms, placing him within the framework of his time, his generation, and the zeitgeist of the psychedelic era.