Timothy Leary
A Biography

This book actually erred on the side of being too thorough. I don't want to know what people had for lunch or breakfast. I'm not using that as an idiom, specific meal contents are listed more than once. I didn't really know much about Timothy Leary beyond, "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and I learned......more

A very thorough biography of a man that is often mythologized. I knew some about Leary, but not very much, and I am fascinated by people who describe themselves as prophetic. Furthermore, I am interested in American history in general and the Beat movement and counterculture that took place from the......more

I never realized how reckless and unhinged Leary was, but this book is still a fascinating tale of a rebel-pioneer asea in a changing world. His insights into the psychology of the incarcerated seem perceptive.......more

This was an absolutely fascinating book to listen to. It covers the sprawling history of this man's astonishing life in a lot of detail, and is therefore not just a book about a brilliant, multi-faceted, flawed human being, but a must-read for anyone interested in what really went down in the 1960s......more

Tim Leary was on the fringes of my awareness during the sixties and beyond. I'd read his scientific papers in preparation for a report delivered in a high school public speaking class, but not much else. He, like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, I saw as a jokester, not to be taken very seriously afte......more