The electric Kool-Aid acid test
by Wolfe, Tom
One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meetin some of the most revolutionary figures of t…
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- Full title :The electric Kool-Aid acid test / Tom Wolfe.
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One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meetin some of the most revolutionary figures of the day.
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- Publication Date:2008
- Edition:1st Picador ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Picador
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1968.
The Physical Object
- Description:416 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780312427597, 031242759X
- oclc:ocn670058146
- LC Classification:HV5825
- Dewey Decimal:362.29 WOL
Table of Contents
Black shiny FBI shoes -- Bladder totem -- Electric suit -- What do you think of my Buddha? -- Rusky-dusky neon dust -- Bus -- Unauthorized acid -- Tootling the multitudes -- Crypt trip -- Dream wars -- Unspoken thing -- Bust -- Hell's Angels -- Miracle in seven days -- Cloud -- The frozen jug band -- Departures -- Cosmo's Tasmanian deviltry -- Trips festival -- The electric Kool-Aid acid test -- Fugitive -- ¡Diablo! -- Red tide -- Mexican bust -- Secret agent number one -- The cops and robbers game -- The graduation -- Epilogue.
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