I Have America Surrounded
The Life of Timothy Leary

I saw this book at the Half Priced Book store and, well, I was intrigued. I've heard about this man and his famous quote, "tune in, turn on and drop out." I perceived Tim through the filter of pop cultures and stoned hippies. It turns out it was a far more interesting read. All the other individuals......more

Bardzo ucieszyłem się, gdy zobaczyłem zapowiedź tej książki, wydanej jako część niezwykle ciekawej serii łódzkiego wydawnictwa Officyna. Oto po raz pierwszy w naszym kraju pojawia się pozycja przedstawiająca w wyczerpujący sposób życiorys jednej z najważniejszych, jeśli nie najważniejszej postaci ko......more

Timothy Leary is an acid guru. It was him who truly brought LSD to the masses in the psychedelic 1960s as he turned from Harvard professor and dropped out of society to promote the new wave of LSD hippy counterculture. He became public enemy number 1 and was jailed but launched a daring escape and w......more

Fast-paced biog, and lots of interesting stuff (never knew the Black Panthers had an embassy in Algeria, for example). But I didn't get a very deep impression of what Leary might actually have been like, and crucially, the effect of psychedelics, so central to the book and to Leary, isn't very clear......more

The old maxim Truth is stranger than fiction applies more here than almost anywhere I can think of. I knew a large part of the middle (1960s) section of this story already but this filled in a lot more weird bizarre and intriguing detail before and after. Like Higg’s great KLF book, this is a hell o......more