Book
The most dangerous man in America : Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Twelve, 2018.
Physical Description
x, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture.
Subjects
- Fugitives from justice > Biography.
- Escapes > California > San Luis Obispo County.
- Psychologists > Biography.
- Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century.
- Counterculture > History > 20th century.
- LSD (Drug) > United States > History > 20th century.
- United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974.
- Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996.
- Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996 > Travel-Foreign countries.
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.