Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (59 page)

Nearly 20,000 pages of once-classified government documents secured through the Freedom of Information Act provided the basic source material for the chapter on CIA and military drug experiments. Some of this information is discussed in
The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”
by John Marks. His book offers a detailed analysis of the CIA’s secret control projects.

Two anthologies were particularly helpful in examining the scientific debate over LSD and the definition of its effects:
Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs,
edited by Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond, and
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
edited by David Solomon. Several lengthy conversations with Dr. Oscar Janiger provided valuable insight into the above-ground LSD research scene during the 1950s. Janiger also made available his voluminous files, which included interviews with Captain Al Hubbard and other LSD pioneers.

A number of books on the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s warrant special mention. The story of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters has been described in great detail by Tom Wolfe in
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Millbrook
by Arthur Kieps offers an anecdotal and philosophical chronicle of Leary’s psychedelic fraternity in the mid-1960s.
High Priest
and
Flashbacks
by Timothy Leary are also useful for acid historians.

Emmett Grogan’s autobiographical novel
Ringolevio
captures the unique spirit of the Haight-Ashbury community. Charles Perry gives a detailed appraisal of the rise and fall of the acid ghetto in
Haight-Ashbury: A History.
These written accounts were supplemented by interviews with Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft, who shared their perspective on the Diggers.

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
by two British authors, Stewart
Tendier and David May, is the most comprehensive and well-researched book on the principal figures involved in the manufacture and distribution of the blackmarket LSD in the 1960s and 1970s.

Other works on the sixties counterculture worthy of note are
Moving Through Here
by Don McNeill,
A Generation in Motion
by David Pichaske, and
Bomb Culture
by Jeff Nuttall. Dick Hebidge provides a sociological analysis of rebellious trends in
Subculture: The Meaning of Style.

Our discussion of the New Left relied heavily on three sources:
The Radical Soap Opera
by David Mairowitz, a well-written and insightful book;
The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
by Todd Gitlin; and the extensive oral history archives compiled by Bret Eynon, who guided our thinking in this area.

Books—

Aaronson, Bernard and Osmond, Humphrey, eds.
Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs.
New York: Doubleday, 1970.

Abramson, Harold, ed.
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy.
New York: The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1960.

Abramson, Harold, ed.
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.

Agee, Philip.
Inside the Company: CIA Diary.
New York: Stonehill, 1975.

Aldiss, Brian.
Barefoot in the Head.
New York: Avon, 1981.

Allegro, John.
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.
London: Hodner and Stoughton, 1970.

Alpert, Richard.
Be Here Now.
San Cristobal, New Mexico: Lama Foundation, 1971.

Alpert, Richard, Cohen, Sidney, and Schiller, Lawrence. LSD. New York: New American Library, 1966.

Anderson, Chester.
The Butterfly Kid.
New York: Pocket Books, 1980.

Andrews, George and Vinkenoog, Simon., eds.
The Book of Grass.
New York: Grove Press, 1967.

Anson, Robert Sam.
Gone Crazy and Back Again.
New York: Doubleday, 1981.

Anthony, Gene.
The Summer of Love.
Millbrae, California: Celestial Arts, 1980.

Armstrong, David.
A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America.
Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1981.

Artaud, Antonin.
The Peyote Dance.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Ashbery, John.
Three Poems.
New York:Viking, 1975.

Baudelaire, Charles.
Artificial Paradise.
New York: Herder and Herder, 1971.

Beck, Julian.
The Life of the Theatre.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1972.

Bedford, Sybille.
Aldous Huxley, A Biography.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

Blum, Ralph.
The Simultaneous Man.
New York: Bantam, 1971.

Blum, Richard, and associates.
Utopiates: The Use and Users of
LSD-25. New York: Atherton Press, 1965.

Booth, Stanley.
Dance with the Devil.
New York: Random House, 1984.

Bowart, Walter H.
Operation Mind Control.
New York: Dell, 1978.

Braden, William.
The Age of Aquarius.
New York: Pocket Books, 1971.

Braden, William.
The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for God.
New York: Bantam, 1968.

Breines, Wini.
Community
Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968: The Great Refusal.
South Hadley, Massachusetts: J.F. Bergin Publishers, 1982.

Breton, André.
What is Surrealism! Selected Writings.
Franklin Rosemont, ed. New York: Monad Press, 1978.

Brown, Anthony Cave.
Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero.
New York: Times Books, 1982.

Brown, Peter, and Games, Steven.
The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles.
New York: Signet, 1983.

Browning, Frank, and the editors of
Ramparts. Smack!
New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Biyan, John.
What Ever Happened to Timothy Leary!
San Francisco: Renaissance Press, 1980.

Burroughs, William S.
The fob.
New York: Grove Press, 1974.

Burroughs, William S.
Naked Lunch.
New York: Grove Press, 1966.

Burroughs, William S.
Nova Express.
New York: Grove Press, 1965.

Burroughs, William S., and Ginsberg, Allen.
The Yagé Letters.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.

Bylinsky, Gene.
Mood Control.
New York: Charles Scnbner’s Sons. 1978.

Caldwell, W. V.
LSD Psychotherapy.
New York: Grove Press, 1969.

Carey, James T.
The College Drug Scene.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Case, John, and Taylor, Rosemary C.R., eds.
Co-ops, Communes &> Collectives: Experiments in Social Change in the 1960s and 1970s.
New York: Pantheon, 1979.

Cashman, John.
The LSD Story.
Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publishers, 1966.

Castenada, Carlos.
The Teachings of Don Juan—A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Charbonneau, Louis.
Psychedelic-40.
New York: Bantam, 1965.

Charters, Ann, ed.
The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America
(Vols. I and II). Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1973.

Chavkin, Samuel.
The Mind Stealers.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

Cholden, Louis, ed.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and Mescaline in Experimental Psychiatry.
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1956.

Clark, Walter Houston.
Chemical Ecstasy.
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969.

Cleaver, Eldridge.
Soul on Ice.
New York: Dell, 1968.

Cohen, Sidney.
The Drug Dilemma.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Cohen, Sidney.
Drugs of Hallucination.
London: Paladin, 1973.

Cook, Bruce.
The Beat Generation.
New York: Scnbners, 1971.

Cookson, John, and Nottingham, Judith.
A Survey of Chemical and Biological Warfare.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969.

Corson, William R.
Armies of Ignorance: The Rise of the American Intelligence Empire.
New York: Dial Press, 1977.

DeRopp, Robert S.
Drugs and the Mind.
New York: Grove Press, 1961.

Dick, Philip.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
New York: New American Library, 1964.

Dick, Philip.
A Scanner Darkly.
New York: New American Library, 1977.

Dickstein, Morris.
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties.
New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Didion, Joan.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Donner, Frank J.
The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System.
New York: Vintage, 1981.

Durr, R. A.
Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience.
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1970.

Ebin, David, ed.
The Drug Experience.
New York: Grove Press, 1965.

Eisen, Jonathan, ed.
The Age of Rock.
New York: Random House, 1969.

Epstein, Edward J.
Agency of Fear.
New York: Putnam, 1977.

Eszterhas, Joe.
Nark!
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974.

Evans, Arthur.
Witchcraft and the Gay Counter-culture.
Boston: Fag Rag Books, 1978.

Farina, Richard.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me.
New York: Dell, 1971.

Felton, David, ed.
Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972.

Fort, Joel.
The Pleasure Seekers: The Drug Crisis, Youth and Society.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.

Friedman, Myra.
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin.
New York: Bantam, 1974.

Frith, Simon.
Sound Effects.
New York: Pantheon, 1981.

Fuller, John C.
The Day of St. Anthony’s Fire.
New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Furst, Peter T.
Hallucinogens and Culture.
San Francisco: Chandler & Sharp, 1976.

Gaskin, Stephen.
Amazing Dope Tales and Haight Street Flashbacks.
Summerton, Tennessee: The Book Publishing Company, 1980.

Geller, Allen, and Boas, Maxwell.
The Drug Beat.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Gerzon, Mark.
The Whole World is Watching.
New York: Paperback Library, 1970.

Ginsberg, Allen.
Allen Verbatim.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.

Ginsberg, Allen.
Composed on the Tongue.
Bolinas, California: Grey Fox Press, 1980.

Ginsberg, Allen.
Howl and Other Poems.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1956.

Ginsberg, Allen.
Kaddish and Other Poems
1958–60. San Francisco: City Lights, 1961.

Ginsberg, Allen.
Planet News
1961–1967. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.

Ginsberg, Allen.
Poems All Over the Place, Mostly ‘Seventies.
Cherry Valley Editions, 1978.

Gitlin, Todd.
The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Gleason, Ralph.
The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound.
New York: Ballantine, 1969.