The Timothy Leary Project
Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
Will be published approx. on 17. April 2018
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4197-2646-0 (ISBN)
Description
The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine what lies beyond our consciousness. Through Leary's papers, the reader meets such key figures as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Marshall McLuhan, Aldous Huxley, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Carl Sagan. Author Jennifer Ulrich organizes this rich material into an annotated narrative of Leary's adventurous life, an epic quest that had a lasting impact on American culture.
Reviews / Votes
"The exchanges between Leary and Ginsberg are collected in a new book, "The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment," compiled by the archivist Jennifer Ulrich... Ulrich's selections, many of them previously unpublished, round out the trajectory of Leary's life from professor to guru to fugitive to a nostalgic caricature of himself." -- The New Yorker onlineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
80 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4197-2646-0 (9781419726460)
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E-Book
03/2022
Abrams Press
€18.18
Available for download
Persons
Jennifer Ulrich is an archivist who spent more than a year working with Timothy Leary's papers at the New York Public Library. Her close collaboration with Leary's family and friends guided her through thousands of items as she curated the collection in this book. She lives in New York City. Timothy Leary's son, Zach Leary, is the host of the "It's All Happening" podcast. Michael Horowitz, who worked with Leary, founded the Fitzhugh Ludlow Memorial Library of drug literature.