description: Ken Kesey was a Golden Boy -- scholar, actor, star athlete, one of the outstanding novelists of his generation. But his life took a turn. He did drugs, publicly and flagrantly, and became the 1960's incarnation of all that was meant by "hippie." Tom Wolfe turned a tour with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters into THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST. He recounts their romp across America in the first psychedelic bus, their alliance with the Hell's Angels, their conversion of the biggest anti-Vietnam rally of all time into a freak-out, their games of hide and seek with the law -- all with a depth and inventiveness that makes this book one of the most memorable journalistic odysseys of our time.
language: English
title: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
titlecomplete: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
characters: Ken Kesey
genres: Cultural, Biography, American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, Counter Culture, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 74590
places: The United States of America
publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.