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The Electric Kool-Aid Test

Pages
448
Published
1968
Language
English

Synopsis

Follow Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their legendary cross-country bus trip in the 1960s. Tom Wolfe's iconic account captures the spirit of the counterculture, the experimental use of LSD, and the wild encounters that defined an era. It's a firsthand look at a generation seeking new experiences and challenging the status quo.

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About the author

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Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He was educated at Washington and Lee (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., American Studies, 1957) universities. In December 1956, he took a job as a reporter on the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union. This was the beginning of a ten-year newspaper career, most of it spent as a general assignment reporter. For six months in 1960 he served as The Washington Post's Latin American correspondent and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize...

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