Timothy Leary: A Biography

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.

Author: Robert Greenfield
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 07/02/2007
Pages: 704
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.62w x 1.18d
ISBN13: 9780156032063
ISBN10: 0156032066
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Social Science | Popular Culture