Timothy Leary: A Biography

Title: Timothy Leary: A Biography Author: Robert Greenfield ISBN: 9780151005000 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Published: 2006 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine A 1629387 Publisher Description: 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