a biography Greenfield, Robert. creator text Orlando Harcourt, Inc. c2006 1st ed. monographic eng 689 p. ill. ; 24 cm. The first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America. To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism and the hedonism of an age of revolutionary change.--Publisher description. Dreaming of heroes : Springfield, Massachusetts, 1920-1938 -- The long gray line : West Point, New York, June 1940-August 1941 -- The Berkeley circle : Berkeley, California, 1941-1958 -- God and man at Harvard : Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1963 -- Xanadu : Millbrook, New York, 1963-1968 -- Come together : California, 1968-1970 -- Escape and flight : San Luis Obispo, California, March-September 1970 -- Exile-no silence, no cunning : Algeria, Switzerland, Afghanistan, September 1970 to January 1973 -- Folsom Prison blues : California, January 1973-May 1976 -- To live and die in LA : California, June 1976-May 31, 1996. Robert Greenfield. "A James H. Silberman Book." Includes bibliographical references and index. "Books and monographs by Timothy Leary": p. [609]. n-us--- Leary, Timothy 1920-1996 Psychologists United States Biography BF109.L43 G74 2006 150.92 B 0151005001 9780151005000 2005030154 DLC 080507 20250702153341.0 14140307