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Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in American history.

Table of contents

	Introduction: Whose Worlds Are These?	xiii
	Prologue	xvii
Part 1	The Roots of Psychedelia
1.	In the Beginning There Was Madness ...	3
	The Truth Seekers	3
	Enter LSD	12
	Laboratories of the State	19
	Midnight Climax	27
	The Hallucination Battlefield	35
2.	Psychedelic Pioneers	44
	The Original Captain Trips	44
	Healing Acid	53
	Psychosis or Gnosis?	61
3.	Under the Mushroom, Over the Rainbow	71
	Manna From Harvard	71
	Chemical Crusaders	77
	The Crackdown	89
4.	Preaching Lsd	96
	High Surrealism	96
	The Psychedelic Manual	106
	The Hard Sell	113
5.	The All-American Trip	119
	The Great Freak Forward	119
	Acid and the New Left	126
Part 2	Acid for the Masses
6.	From Hip to Hippie	141
	Before the Deluge	141
	Politics of the Bummer	150
	The First Human Be-In	157
7.	The Capital of Forever	170
	Stone Free	170
	The Great Summer Dropout	179
8.	Peaking in Babylon	194
	A Gathering Storm	194
	Magical Politics	201
	Gotta Revolution	211
9.	Season of the Witch	223
	Armed Love	223
	The Acid Brotherhood	234
	Bad Moon Rising	251
10.	What a Field Day for the Heat	259
	Prisoner of Lsd	259
	A Bitter Pill	267
	The Great Lsd Conspiracy	276
	Postscript: Acid and After	288
	Afterword	295
	References	298
	Bibliography	323
	Index	333