New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on Psychedelic Drugs and the Death of the 1950s

January 28, 2010

In his new book The Harvard Psychedelic Club, Don Lattin argues that America would never be the same because of an unlikely quartet, including Timothy Leary and psychologist Richard Alpert, that did time—and drugs—at Harvard in the early 1960s. But as Nick Gillespie writes, is it really true that LSD killed the 1950s?

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