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100 1  Lee, Martin A.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Acid Dreams :|bThe Complete Social History of LSD : The 
       CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond /|cMartin A. Lee. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bGrove Atlantic,
       |c[2007] 
264  4 |c©2007 
300    1 online resource (384 pages) 
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520    An engrossing account of the history of LSD, the 
       psychedelic 1960s, and the clandestine mind games of the 
       CIA (William Burroughs). Beginning with the discovery of 
       LSD in 1943, this "monumental social history of 
       psychedelia" tracks the most potent drug known to science 
       -- from its use by the government during the paranoia of 
       the Cold War to its spill-over into a revolutionary 
       antiestablishment recreation during the Vietnam War -- 
       setting the stage for one of the great ideological battles
       of the decade ( The Village Voice ). In the intervening 
       years, the CIA launched a massive covert research program 
       in the hope that LSD would serve as an espionage weapon; 
       psychiatric pioneers came to believe that acid would shed 
       light on the perplexing problems of mental illness; and a 
       new generation of writers and artists in countercultural 
       transition sought to break the "mind-forged manacles" of 
       cultural repression -- among them, Timothy Leary, Ken 
       Kesey, the Beatles, Allen Ginsberg, William Mellon 
       Hitchcock, and Abbie Hoffman. Painting an indelible 
       portrait of an unforgettable era and using startling 
       information obtained through the Freedom of Information 
       Act, Acid Dreams also exposes one of the most bizarre, 
       shocking, and often tragic episodes in American history. 
       "An important historical synthesis of the spread and 
       effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an
       era." -- John Sayles "Marvelously detailed . . loaded with
       startling revelations." -- Los Angeles Daily News. 
588 0  Publisher metadata. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency. 
650  0 Drug abuse|zUnited States. 
650  0 LSD (Drug) 
650  0 Social history|y1960-1970. 
650  0 Social history|y1970- 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
700 1  Shlain, Bruce. 
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