Hip Glossary – The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test: Tom Wolfe’s book about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. One of the great books about how LSD invaded America’s consciousness, peaking during the Summer of Love. A tribute to Kesey, the Pranksters (including Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs, Mountain Girl and Wavy Gravy), and the whole psychedelic generation. Good insight into how the torch was passed from the Beats to the hippies. It also contrasts Kesey’s “up front”, experiential movement versus Timothy Leary’s experimental, insightful approach to the LSD trip.