The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Subtitle: how Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America
By: Don Lattin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780061655937
Description: Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Four roads to Cambridge; title: Turn on; title: Sinners and saints; title: Crimson tide; title: Trouble in paradise; title: If you come to San Francisco...; title: Pilgrimage and exile; title: After the ecstasy...four lives; title: Healer, teacher, trickster, seeker.