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Tom Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Hippies, acid, and a bus with a hole in the roof. Wolfe throws us into the world of Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and the Merry Pranksters while they take a psychedelic tour of America. Destination: Further. From allegiance with the Hell's Angels, to a takeover of a church, to anti-Vietnam rallies, to marijuana and rock and roll, Wolfe takes us on an unforgettable journey of the 1960s. "Mr. Wolfe seems to have gotten right into the pulsing, ballooning heart of the matter, in terms both of subject focus and style. The book is printed in black and white, but the words come through in crazy Day-Glo fluorescent, psychedelic, at once energetic and epicene." Eliot Fermont-Smith, Books of the Times, 1968. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test should be read by anyone who plans on becoming a serious journalist. Wolfe has a gift, talent, to place himself straight into the mind of his subject. He writes in their language, thinks their thoughts, and by the end of the book you feel as if you have been on that bus tripping on LSD. Something that most journalism fails to do today. MORE: Great collection of Wolfe resources on the web |
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