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Acid Dreams de Martin A Lee

Acid Dreams

Autor Martin A Lee, Bruce Shlain
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 1994

Reținem în Acid Dreams o abordare interdisciplinară riguroasă, care intersectează istoria politică a Războiului Rece, sociologia mișcărilor de contracultură și psihiatria experimentală. Autorii Martin A Lee și Bruce Shlain reconstruiesc parcursul moleculei de LSD, de la laboratorul lui Albert Hofmann în 1943 până la transformarea sa într-un catalizator al rebeliunii sociale. Notăm cu interes modul în care volumul documentează obsesia serviciilor de informații pentru controlul mental, transformând cercetarea academică într-un scenariu de spionaj în care cetățeni obișnuiți au devenit subiecți ai experimentelor MKUltra.

Această ediție revizuită oferă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care o substanță chimică a reușit să modifice structura ideologică a unei decade. Comparabil cu Storming Heaven de Jay Stevens în rigurozitatea documentării, Acid Dreams se distinge prin accentul pus pe arhivele guvernamentale declasificate, fiind actualizat pentru a reflecta legătura complexă dintre politicile de stat și subcultura artistică. În timp ce LSD — The Wonder Child se concentrează pe pionierii cercetării din anii '50, lucrarea de față extinde analiza spre implicațiile politice profunde ale erei Haight-Ashbury.

Poziționăm această lucrare ca piatră de temelie în opera lui Martin A Lee, servind drept precursor tematic pentru Smoke Signals. Dacă în lucrarea ulterioară autorul explorează nexul legal și medical al canabisului, în Acid Dreams el stabilește cadrul metodologic pentru analiza modului în care substanțele psihoactive devin metafore centrale ale unei epoci. Stilul este precis, evitând senzaționalismul în favoarea unei cronici detaliate care umple golurile din istoria recentă a Statelor Unite.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802130624
ISBN-10: 0802130623
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Grove Atlantic

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria culturală și politică a secolului XX. Acid Dreams oferă o analiză factuală a modului în care experimentele guvernamentale secrete și mișcările artistice au fuzionat pentru a crea fenomenul anilor '60. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile contraculturii moderne și mecanismele de supraveghere ale serviciilor de informații, fiind susținută de o documentare academică de excepție.

Descriere scurtă

Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding story—part of it hidden till now in secret Government files—of the role the mind-altering drug played in our recent turbulent history and the continuing influence it has on our time.

And what a story it is, beginning with LSD’s discovery in 1943 as the most potent drug known to science until it spilled into public view some twenty years later to set the stage for one of the great ideological wars of the decade. In the intervening years the CIA had launched a massive covert research program in the hope that LSD would serve as an espionage weapon, psychiatric pioneers came to believe that acid would shed light on the perplexing problems of mental illness, and a new generation of writers and artists had given birth to the LSD sub-culture.

Acid Dreams is a complete social history of the psychedelic counter-culture that burst into full view in the Sixties. With new information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the authors reveal how the CIA became obsessed with LSD during the Cold War, fearing the Soviets had designs on it as well. What follows is one of the more bizarre episodes in the covert history of U.S. intelligence as the search for a “truth drug” began to resemble a James Bond scenario in which agents spied on drug-addicted prostitutes through two-way mirrors and countless unwitting citizens received acid with sometimes tragic results.

The story took a new turn when Captain Al Hubbard, the first of a series of “Johnny Appleseeds” of acid, began to turn on thousands of scientists, businessmen, church figures, policemen, and others from different walks of life.

Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg and the Beat generation, the Diggers and the Age of Golden Anarchy in Haight-Ashbury, William Mellon Hitchcock, Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Beatles—these are just some of a motley cast of characters who stride through the pages of this compelling chronicle. What impact did the widespread use of LSD have on the anti-war movement of the late Sixties? Acid Dreams traces the way the drug intensified each stage of counter-cultural transition to break the “mind-forged manacles” of a new generation in rebellion.

In Acid Dreams, Martin Lee and Bruce Shalin have written the history of a time still only dimly understood. The events they recount and the facts they uncover supply an important missing piece of the puzzle of a crucial decade in our recent past.



Praise

“Engaging throughout. . . . At once entertaining and disturbing.”—Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation

“Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations.”—Los Angeles Daily News

“Excellent. . . . Captivating. . . . A generalist’s history that should replace all others.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A landmark contribution to the sociopolitical history of the U.S. . . . Some of the liveliest, most absorbing, best-documented historical analyses to appear in recent years. . . . A seminal contribution to understanding America’s most turbulent modern decade.”—Choice

“This funny and irreverent book brings it all back.”—The Washington Post

“Recounts some of the most bizarre incidents in the history of U.S. intelligence.”—The Boston Globe

“A monumental social history of psychedelia.”—The Village Voice

“A blistering exposé of CIA drug experimentation on Americans. It’s all there.”—John Stockwell

“Highly readable. . . . Well researched. . . . Filled with entertaining and bizarre episodes.”—The Detroit Free Press

“An important study of cultural history. . . . The scholarship is exquisite and the methods sensible.”—Allen Ginsberg

“An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life.”—William S. Burroughs

“A missing link, a work of combat history, a devastating combination of facts and poetry that is bound to arouse controversy.”—Paul Krassner

“An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era.”—John Sayles

Descriere

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history. "Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing." - Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation; "Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations." - Los Angeles Daily News; "An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life." - William S. Burroughs; "An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era." - John Sayles.