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Acid HypeStephen Siff

Acid Hype

Stephen Siff
2015260 pages
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"Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while outlets across the media landscape piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing. Acid Hype offers the untold tale of LSD's wild journey from Brylcreem and Ivory soap to incense and peppermints. As Stephen Siff shows, the early attention lavished on the drug by the news media glorified…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 2015
    University of Illinois Press · 264 pages · 9780252080760
  • Other · English · 2015
    University of Illinois Press · 256 pages · 9780252039195
  • Other · English · 2015
    University of Illinois Press · 9780252097232
Hallucinogenic drugsLsd (drug)Drugs and mass mediaHistorySOCIAL SCIENCE / Media StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CultureSocial aspectsHallucinogens