Flashbacks: An Autobiography

Timothy Leary

ISBN 10: 0874773172 / ISBN 13: 9780874773170

Published by J.P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 1983

About this Item

soft cover., slight reading creases and minor wear to spine. no other flaws, wear. clean. no markings. no bumps, tears. strong sewn binding.; 395pp. plus two graphs at back. section of b/w photos. quite readable and filled with the history of those times.; this copy contains a 1983 postcard invitation to attend the dialogue between dr. timothy leary and dr. richard alpert (a.k.a. baba ram dass) on sunday, april 24, 10:30 a.m. at sanders theatre on the harvard university campus. it has a drawing of mushrooms above the printed text., an unusual item of psychedelic ephemera. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 20580

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flashbacks: An Autobiography
• Publisher: J.P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874773172
• ISBN 13: 9780874773170
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drugs
  • The Odd and Off Beat

About this title

Synopsis

With a foreword by William Burroughs, this frenetic autobiography relates the life story of Timothy Leary, one of the key figures of the1960s North American counterculture, and the primary proponent of psychedelia as a way of life. Leary’s controversial views made him a public enemy in the United States, where he was eventually arrested in 1970 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His escape from prison, and subsequent flight, with the help of the Weathermen, first to Algeria, then to Switzerland, Vienna, Beirut, and finally Kabul, Afghanistan, read like something out of a novel. Other events in Leary’s life were no less dramatic, and he chronicles them in this book openly and energetically. Intriguing cameos of iconic figures are woven into the author’s life history, including one by Cary Grant, whose experiments with lysergic acid are described in detail. Ultimately, Timothy Leary’s memories are as much a record of a singular era in American history as they are one man’s recollections of a struggle against persecution and being ostracized.

About the Author

ROBERT W. HARRIS has been a freelance writer and designer since 1990. He has written twelve books, including DOS, WordPerfect & Lotus Office Companion and When Good People Write Bad Sentences. His books have been main selections in the Small Computer Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club.