Saturday, October 15, 2016

Book Excerpt for the Day


    Leary would go on to become one of the most revered and reviled symbols of the 1960’s.  Huston Smith would enthusiastically join Leary’s psychedelic crusade, only to go his own way when the party got a little wild for an ordained, and happily married, Methodist minister.  Richard Alpert, as Ram Dass, would continue to struggle with a voracious omnisexual appetite.  Andy Weil would play hard-ball in his campaign to get Alpert and Leary kicked out of Harvard, only to replace them in the 1970’s as the new ringmaster of the drug culture.


    (from The Harvard Psychedelic Club  by Don Lattin)

  10*/10.  The complete review is here.
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