The Plot to Turn On the World: The Leary/Ginsberg Acid Conspiracy
As the public faces of the psychedelic revolution, Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary made a dynamic duo. The charming, boyish, Irish Harvard professor and the ecstatic, boldly gay, Hebraically-bearded Jersey bard became the de facto gurus of the movement they’d helped create — father figures for a generation of lysergic pilgrims who temporarily jettisoned their own fathers in their quest for renewable revelation.
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PLoS
Published: Apr 21, 2011
Length: 17 minutes (4,373 words)