Title: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
First published: 1968
Description: One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day.
Subjects: Drug addiction, Travel, Recreational Drug Use, Hippies, Merry Band of Pranksters, LSD (Drug), Drug abuse, American Novelists, Journeys, Biography, 20th century american history - social aspects - post world war ii, U.s. authors - 20th century - literary biography, Drugs & controlled substances - social aspects, Counterculture, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: United States
People: Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe
Time periods: 1960s