Orange Sunshine, Nicholas Schou
Orange Sunshine, Nicholas Schou
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Orange Sunshine
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

Author: Nicholas Schou

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/14/2021

Synopsis

Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia," the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest group of acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation, and literally providing the fuel for the psychedelic revolution in the process.

Journalist Nicholas Schou takes us deep inside the Brotherhood, combining exclusive interviews with both the group's surviving members as well as the cops who chased them. A wide-sweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (and more drugs) that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.

About Nicholas Schou

Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack Cocaine Epidemic Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb, which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features movie starring Jeremy Renner. He lives in Long Beach, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jake on February 04, 2017

After reading this I suggest watching the newly released documentary by the same title. The way the film presents the characters highlights their passion and mission in a way that the book couldn't. For instance, the love story between Carol and Michael is lovely and a real tear-jerker, and I could......more

Goodreads review by Beer on September 21, 2021

Non-fiction reporting books almost never tell a balanced story, and neither does this one. I think Schou did a great job with the possibilities handed to him, and so long after the facts. These people were all in their 60s at least! The objective style of writing was comforting, and made for an easy......more

Goodreads review by Tim on June 20, 2010

When people hear the word LSD or the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," a couple images likely come to mind. One is Timothy Leary, the most publicized advocate of LSD. Another is a group of spaced-out hippies in psychedelic clothing (often optional) at a "be-in." What probably doesn't come to mind......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on August 07, 2014

To give you a reference point I graduated high school in the west side of Los Angeles in 1973. I have 2 older cousins, one of whom is one of the original hippies who lived in the Haight, Berkeley, and Bolinas. I lived in Manhattan Beach, only a few miles from the location of this book. I may or may......more

Goodreads review by David on January 20, 2016

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by Nicholas Schou (Thomas Dunne Books 2010)(363.45) tells the story of an organization known as The Brotherhood of Eternal Love which served as one of the principal distributors of LSD in the......more

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