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1968
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New…
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Today I would like to take a closer look at one of my favorite books, the story of how a group of artists brought LSD out of the obscurity of psychiatric laboratories and made it the most popular drug of the 1960's, before it was made illegal as one of the most vilified substances of its time. The author of this highly entertaining nonfiction work is none other than the genious Tom Wolfe , and the main character the…More
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