The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By Tom Wolfe
(Picador, Paperback, 9780312427597, 432pp.)

Publication Date: August 19, 2008

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Mass Market Paperback, Paperback

Categories: Popular Culture - Counter Culture, United States - 20th Century/60s

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Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He lives in New York City.

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Tom Wolfe wrote about Ken Kesey's LSD experiments in the book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In 1987, Wolfe spoke to Terry Gross about following Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. More at NPR.org

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