Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream -- Jay Stevens

<p>For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded "the most dangerous man in America"); for Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters it fueled the notorious Acid Tests; and it was the improbable common denominator that united such disparate figures as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Charles Manson.</p> <p>In this brilliant, riveting, and exhaustively researched book, Jay Stevens relates the history of that "curious molecule," LSD. He unearths a story of Pynchonesque complexity, tells it with novelistic flair, and irrefutably demonstrates LSD's pivotal role in the cultural upheavals that shook America in the 1960s and changed the country forever.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jay Stevens<br><b>Publisher:</b> Grove Press<br><b>Published:</b> 09/02/1998<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.21lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.53h x 5.55w x 1.08d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780802135872<p></p>