{"product_id":"white-hand-society-the-psychedelic-partnership-of-timothy-leary-and-allen-ginsberg-paperback","title":"White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Conners\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous--or infamous--and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia's elite. Ginsberg, fresh from his first experience with hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico, was eager to promote the spiritual possibilities of psychedelic use. Thus, America's most conspicuous beatnik was recruited as Ambassador of Psilocybin under the auspices of an Ivy League professor, and together they launched the psychedelic revolution and turned on the hippie generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Hand Society\u003c\/em\u003e weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale of the life, times and friendship of these two larger-than-life figures and the incredible impact their relationship had on America. Peter Conners has gathered hundreds of pages of letters, documents, studies, FBI files and other primary resources that shed new light on their relationship, and a veritable who's who of artists and cultural figures appear along the way, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Thelonious Monk, Willem de Kooning and Barney Rosset. The story of the psychedelic partnership of two of the most famous, charismatic and controversial members of America's counterculture brings together a multitude of major figures from politics, the arts and the intersection of intellectual life and outlaw culture in a way that sheds new light on the dawn of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the years City Lights has brought us seminal work by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and now, this detail-rich double bio of Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. I knew both these men pretty well, and the times intimately, and Peter Conners has been true to it all. I don't know how he amassed the trunks of data he must have used to find the jillions of details which were new to me, but I'm certainly glad that he did. This book wins a well deserved spot on my shelf, and belongs with anyone who wants an intimate view of the Sixties-Seventies spinning of the Great Wheel of the Dharma.--Peter Coyote, actor\/author, \u003cem\u003eSleeping Where I Fall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Conners is author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eGrowing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead\u003c\/em\u003e (Da Capo Press, 2009). His other books include the prose poetry collection \u003cem\u003eOf Whiskey and Winter\u003c\/em\u003e, the novella \u003cem\u003eEmily Ate the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e and the collection \u003cem\u003eThe Crows Were Laughing in their Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, published by White Pine Press in spring 2011. He is also editor of \u003cem\u003ePP\/FF: An Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFiction International\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalt Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHotel Amerika\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Bitter Oleander\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBeloit Fiction Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and will be included in the \u003cem\u003eForty Under Forty\u003c\/em\u003e poetry anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 23, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758100513056,"sku":"9780872865358","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f913291423e2c854aa91c662270e7ae0.webp?v=1780118026","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/white-hand-society-the-psychedelic-partnership-of-timothy-leary-and-allen-ginsberg-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}