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5%OFFPeter Conners - White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg - 9780872865358 - V9780872865358
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White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg

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Description for White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg Paperback. The inside story of how Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together. Num Pages: 312 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BG; JFSS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous -- or infamous -- and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia's elite. Ginsberg, fresh from his first experience with hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico, was eager to promote the spiritual possibilities of psychedelic use. Thus, "America's most conspicuous beatnik" was recruited as Ambassador of Psilocybin under the auspices of an Ivy League professor, and together they launched the psychedelic revolution and turned on the hippie generation. White Hand Society ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872865358
SKU
V9780872865358
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About Peter Conners
Peter Conners is author of the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009). His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, is forthcoming from White Pine Press in spring ... Read more

Reviews for White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
"A full account of the two 1960s icons who made it their cause to launch the psychedelic age...an entertaining overview of an era whose echoes still ring."-Kirkus

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