MP3 Audios - Biography

"Hugely entertaining....[A] genuine page turner, an epic tragedy
and a cosmic farce."--L.A. Weekly

"A veritable who's who of the age of Aquarius and a real page-turner....illuminates
the paradoxes of the psychedelic age."--Booklist

"Nearly every page is riveting....unfolds like the great novel Sinclair Lewis might
have written had he lived to the age of 120."--New York Times Book Review

"[H]as all the makings of a real American tragedy....Greenfield's book goes a long
way to setting the record straight-painful, at times, as that may be."
--The Music Box

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out"
became a mantra and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and
brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects
of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only
encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty.
What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter
consciousness itself. Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into
counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism and the hedonism of an age of
revolutionary change. Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the
most controversial figures in postwar America.