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The New Journalism literary style is seen to have elicited either fascination or incredulity by its audience. While The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was not the original standard for New Journalism, it is the most-often cited work of that genre. Wolfe's descriptions and accounts of the adventures of Kesey and his cohort were influential on the ...
The Pump House Gang was published on the same day in 1968 as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe's story about the LSD-fueled adventures of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. [3] They were Wolfe's first books since The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby in 1965 which, like The Pump House Gang , was a collection of Wolfe's essays.
Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby ...
Ken Babbs was born January 14, 1936, and raised in Mentor, Ohio. [citation needed] He attended the Case Institute of Technology where he briefly studied engineering for two years on a basketball scholarship, before transferring to Miami University, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English literature in 1958.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Books about LSD" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe, 1968, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters; We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco by Nicholas Von Hoffman, 1968; The Politics of Ecstasy, by Timothy Leary, 1968. Revolution for the Hell of It, by Abbie Hoffman, 1968.
His memoir, Famous People I Have Known, humorously recollects many of his Prankster experiences, and Tom Wolfe's bestseller, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, gave it worldwide notoriety. [2] In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. [3]
During 1964, Cassady served as the main driver of the bus named Furthur on the iconic first half of the journey from San Francisco to New York, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968).