Timothy Leary : a biography / Robert Greenfield.
Greenfield, Robert.
2006
BF109.L43 G74 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Timothy Leary : a biography / Robert Greenfield.
Author Greenfield, Robert.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0151005001
9780151005000
Publication Details Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006.
Language English
Description 689 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BF109.L43 G74 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 150.92 B
Summary 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.
Note "A James H. Silberman Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Books and monographs by Timothy Leary": p. [609].
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Dreaming of heroes : Springfield, Massachusetts, 1920-1938
The long gray line : West Point, New York, June 1940-August 1941
The Berkeley circle : Berkeley, California, 1941-1958
God and man at Harvard : Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1963
Xanadu : Millbrook, New York, 1963-1968
Come together : California, 1968-1970
Escape and flight : San Luis Obispo, California, March-September 1970
Exile-no silence, no cunning : Algeria, Switzerland, Afghanistan, September 1970 to January 1973
Folsom Prison blues : California, January 1973-May 1976
To live and die in LA : California, June 1976-May 31, 1996.

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