For a generation in revolt against authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, its popularizer, Dr Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic psychologist, he became 1st intrigued, 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 & faculty. What began as research into consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. He transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism & the hedonism of an age of revolutionary change. Timothy Leary is the 1st major biography of this controversial postwar figure.
Dreaming of heroes: Springfield, MA, 1920-38
The long gray line: West Point, NY, June 1940-August 41
The Berkeley circle: Berkeley, CA, 1941-58
God & man at Harvard: Cambridge, MA, 1958-63
Xanadu: Millbrook, NY, 1963-68
Come together: CA, 1968-70
Escape & flight: San Luis Obispo, CA, March-September 70
Exile-no silence, no cunning: Algeria, Switzerland, Afghanistan, September 70 to January 73
Folsom Prison blues: CA, January 73-May 76
To live & die in LA: CA, June 76-May 31, 96
Acknowledgments
A Note of Sources
Books & Monographs by Timothy Leary
Endnotes
Index
Timothy Leary: A Biography
