Heads : a biography of psychedelic America / Jesse Jarnow.

Tells the history of psychedelic drug counterculture that has become a part of the mainstream American psyche, beginning in the 1950s when the drugs were a promising psychological treatment, through their hippie heyday and to modern day usage. --Publisher's description.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarnow, Jesse (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Deadheads (Music fans) > United States.
Rock music > Social aspects > United States.
Hallucinogenic drugs > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xi, 468 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Humbead's revised map of the world
  • Dead freaks unite
  • Beyond the Whole Earth
  • Shakedown Street
  • The burning shore
  • This everlasting spoof
  • Day of the Dead
  • Wetlands Preserve
  • Through the looking glass
  • The tour from Hell
  • Festival season
  • How Jerry got hip (again).