Timothy Leary Pa - Couverture souple

Greenfield, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156032066 ISBN 13 : 9780156032063

Editeur : Harvest, 2007

Synopsis

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.

Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

ROBERT GREENFIELD is the author of a biography of Jerry Garcia and a book about rock impresario Bill Graham, which won a Ralph J. Gleason Award and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence. He lives in California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvest
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156032066
• ISBN 13: 9780156032063
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: HarperCollins Publishers Ireland; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande