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The Harvard Psychedelic Club : how four visionaries killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America  Cover Image Book Book

The Harvard Psychedelic Club : how four visionaries killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America / by Don Lattin.

Lattin, Don, 1953- (Author).

Summary:

Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780061655937
  • ISBN: 9780061655944 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0061655945 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, [2010]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Four roads to Cambridge -- Turn on -- Sinners and saints -- Crimson tide -- Trouble in paradise -- If you come to San Francisco... -- Pilgrimage and exile -- After the ecstasy...four lives -- Healer, teacher, trickster, seeker.
Subject: Smith, Huston.
Ram Dass.
Weil, Andrew
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
Hallucinogenic drugs > Research > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > 20th century.
Harvard University. Department of Social Relations > Biography.
Hallucinogenic drugs > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Religion and sociology > United States > History > 20th century.
Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District.

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