The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin 241 pp.
This is book is subtitled "How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America." Saying they killed the fifties is an overstatement. However, the book is an interesting look at what went on during the LSD experiments that Leary began at Harvard and continued in various other locations after he was fired from the university. For me the only revelations were Huston Smith's connection to Leary and the story of how Dr. Andrew Weil brought about the firing of Leary & Richard Alpert (Ram Dass). I'm not sure who comes out looking the worst but my money is on Ram Dass.
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