Can't Find My Way Home
Subtitle: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780743230117
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Crime & criminology; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History: American; History; History - U.S.; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / General; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; Case studies; Drug abuse; Subculture; United States
First sentence: OUR STONED BROTHERHOOD came together in the season after Woodstock, the moonwalk, and the Manson murders.
Description: This book is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned Age. It tells this story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But the book does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist.