Title: Timothy Leary
Subtitle: An Experimental Life
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Psychologists, Biography, Leary, timothy, 1920-1996, Psychologists, biography, New York Times reviewed, Psychology, Hallucinogens, History, History, 20th Century, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Places: United States
People: Timothy Francis Leary (1920-)
LC classification: BF109.L43 G74 2006