The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 6 of 125
The best history of the sixties counterculture
While researching this book, I reread Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion. Not only is the book the best history of LSD, it’s the best history of ’60s counterculture as a whole: an eyewitness account of just how close the West, in particular the apparently monolithic United States, came to internal breakdown in the late ’60s. I was beginning to think I had imagined it all, so outrageous did the things we had done seem in the light of the past twenty-five years’ abject political and cultural conformism—but no, everything was there in Acid Dreams . . .