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Product Identifiers
PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802135870
ISBN-139780802135872
eBay Product ID (ePID)22397
Product Key Features
Book TitleStorming Heaven : Lsd and the American Dream
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicEntheogens & Visionary Substances, Sociology / General, Social History, Popular Culture, General
FeaturesReprint
GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History, Medical
AuthorJay Stevens
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal362.2/93/0973
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisStorming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories. His prodigiously researched narrative moves from Aldous Huxley's earnest attempts to "open the doors of perception" to Timothy Leary's surreal experiments at Millbrook; from the CIA's purchase of millions of doses to the thousands of flower children who turned on and burned out in Haight-Ashbury. Along the way, this brilliant, novelistic work of cultural history unites such figures as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Charles Manson. Storming Heaven irrefutably demonstrates LSD's pivotal role in the countercultural upheavals that shook America in the 1960s and changed the country forever., For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded "the most dangerous man in America"); for Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters it fueled the notorious Acid Tests; and it was the improbable common denominator that united such disparate figures as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Charles Manson. In this brilliant, riveting, and exhaustively researched book, Jay Stevens relates the history of that "curious molecule," LSD. He unearths a story of Pynchonesque complexity, tells it with novelistic flair, and irrefutably demonstrates LSD's pivotal role in the cultural upheavals that shook America in the 1960s and changed the country forever.
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- 28. Jan. 2020
A must read
Storming Heaven tells a story which should be more widely known, and it tells the story well. There are many characters in the story, a lot that you have probably heard of. This book gives the details, color, and shading behind each of the characters, to give the reader a much better sense of what was really happening.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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