The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [Paperback]

Now featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer,The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testis a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testis Tom Wolfes seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters. Along the way, even as Wolfe vividly recounts the groups infamous Acid Tests and the countrys changing attitudes toward psychedelic drugs, he ropes in a whos who of the early years of the hippie movement, from the Hells Angels to the Grateful Dead to Allen Ginsberg.

Wolfes clear, unblinking depiction of the travels, experiments, and exploits of his subjects have made his book the quintessential text in New Journalism, which he was instrumental in creating.

Readers will find an unparalleled examination of this pivotal moment in American history.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testis a prescient, evergreen classic, as groundbreaking now as it was when it first stormed onto the scene and forever changed what we thought nonfiction was capable of.

Tom Wolfe(19302018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including such contemporary classics asThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,The Right Stuff, andRadical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novelsThe Bonfire of the Vanities,A Man in Full, andI Am Charlotte Simmons. He is credited with coining the term the Me Decade. Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolflƒv