The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, w…

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Title Statements

Full title :The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test / Tom Wolfe.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1969.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1969.

The Physical Object

Description:416 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780312427597, 031242759X
oclc:ocn540507341
LC Classification:HV5825
Dewey Decimal:301.2

Black shiny FBI shoes -- Bladder totem -- Electric suit -- What do 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.

Subjects

Drug abuse Drug abuse -- United States Hippies Hippies -- États-Unis Hippies -- United States Histoire sociale -- 1960-1970 Kesey, Ken LSD (Drogue) LSD (Drug) Lysergic Acid Diethylamide social history Social history -- 1960-1970 Toxicomanie -- États-Unis United States