Timothy Leary : a biography / Robert Greenfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenfield, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996.

Leary, Timothy.

Psychologists--United States--Biography.

Psychologists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

689 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., [2006]

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"A James H. Silberman Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [610]-663) and index.

"Books and monographs by Timothy Leary": page [609].

ISBN:

0151005001

OCLC:

62127831

Publisher Number:

9780151005000

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