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Acid Christ : Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy.
Title:
Acid Christ : Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy.
Author:
Christensen, Mark.
ISBN:
9781936182107
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (457 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- PROLOGUE: NEON RENAISSANCE MAN -- PART ONE: THE SHEPHERDS -- Chapter One: Requiem for a Heavyweight -- Chapter Two: Natural Man -- Chapter Three: Adams and Eves -- Chapter Four: BMOC -- Chapter Five: The Good Book -- Chapter Six: Unholy Grail -- Chapter Seven: Big Mother and the Whores -- PART TWO: THE SHEEP -- Chapter Eight: Holy Land -- Chapter Nine: Notion -- Chapter Ten: Theater of Sheep -- Chapter Eleven: I am A Camera -- Chapter Twelve: Auteur -- Chapter Thirteen: Blows Against the Empire -- Chapter Fourteen: Days of Heaven -- PART THREE: THE SAVANT -- Chapter Fifteen: Krassner Agonistes -- Chapter Sixteen: Utopian Thought in the Western World -- Chapter Seventeen: Holy Mayhem, Inc -- Chapter Eighteen: The Jail Interviews -- Chapter Nineteen: Sea Change -- Chapter Twenty: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again, Maybe, of the High Ideal -- Chapter Twenty-One: Fantasy Island -- Chapter Twenty-Two: High Crimes -- Chapter Twenty-Three: The Abuses of Enchantment -- Chapter Twenty-Four: .000001 and Much, Much More -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Man Child in the Promised Land -- Chapter Twenty-Six: Heaven on Earth -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Burbank Babylon -- PART FOUR: SHEEP, THE SEQUEL -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Working on My Fantasy -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Revolution Has Happened -- Chapter Thirty: The Dream Museum -- Chapter Thirty-One: California Girls -- Chapter Thirty-Two: Scepter of Democracy -- PART FIVE: THE SAVED -- Chapter Thirty-Three: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight -- Chapter Thirty-Four: Venusians -- Chapter Thirty-Five: Last Supper -- Chapter Thirty-Six: Dying in the Provinces -- Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Story of H -- Chapter Thirty-Eight: Last Go Round -- Chapter Thirty-Nine: A Long Time Gone -- Chapter Forty: Drowning in the Wishing Well -- Chapter Forty-One: Kiss No Ass -- Chapter Forty-Two: End Game.

Chapter Forty-Three: Stairway to Heaven -- Chapter Forty-Four: Last Rites -- Epilogue: Flashbacks -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Photo Credits -- Index.
Abstract:
From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who described himself as "too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," this account conducts a mesmerizing journey from the perspective of Mark Christensen, an eventual member of the Kesey "flock." Featuring interviews with those within his inner circle, this exploration reveals the bestselling author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in his many forms, placing him within the framework of his time, his generation, and the zeitgeist of the psychedelic era.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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