Acid dreams
Subtitle: the complete social history of LSD : the CIA, the sixties, and beyond
By: Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain ; with an introduction by Andrei Codrescu.
Contributors: Shlain, Bruce.
Edition: Rev. Evergreen ed.
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; LSD (Drug); Drug abuse -- United States; Social history -- 1960-1970; Social history -- 1970-
Description: "Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account - part of it gleaned from secret government files - tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-332) and index.
"An Evergreen book"--Cover.