Timothy Leary
Subtitle: a biography
By: Robert Greenfield.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 689
ISBN-13: 9780151005000
Subjects: Leary, Timothy Francis, 1920-; Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A James H. Silberman Book."
Table of contents: title: Dreaming of heroes : Springfield, Massachusetts, l920-l938; title: The long gray line : West Point, New York, June, 1940-August 1941; title: The Berkeley circle : Berkeley, California, l941-l958; title: God and man at Harvard : Cambridge and Newton, Massachusetts, 1958-1963; title: Xanadu : Millbrook, New York, 1963-1968; title: Come together : California, 1968-1970; title: Escape and flight : San Luis Obispo, California, March-September 1970; title: Exileno silence, no cunning : Algeria, Switzerland, Afghanistan, September l970 to January 1973; title: Folsom Prison blues : California, January l973-May 1976; title: To live and die in LA : California, June l976-May 31, 1996.