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The Harvard Psychedelic Club : how Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America

Title
The Harvard Psychedelic Club : how Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America / Don Lattin.
Author
Lattin, Don, 1953-
Publication
New York : HarperOne, c2010.

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Description
ix, 256 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.
Subject
  • Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
  • Ram Dass
  • Smith, Huston
  • Weil, Andrew
  • Harvard University. Department of Social Relations > Biography
  • Hallucinogenic drugs > Research > History > Massachusetts > Cambridge > 20th century
  • Hallucinogenic drugs > Social aspects > History > United States > 20th century
  • Religion and sociology > United States > History > 20th century
  • Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century
  • United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
Contents
Four roads to Cambridge -- Turn on -- Sinners and saints -- Crimson tide -- Trouble in paradise -- If you come to San Francisco... -- Pilgrimage and exile -- After the ecstasy...four lives -- Healer, teacher, trickster, seeker.
Call Number
JFD 12-410
ISBN
  • 9780061655937
  • 0061655937
LCCN
2009026323
OCLC
2009026323
Author
Lattin, Don, 1953-
Title
The Harvard Psychedelic Club : how Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America / Don Lattin.
Imprint
New York : HarperOne, c2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 12-410
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