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• catalog abstract "Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American century transformed into the great stoned age. Martin Torgoff begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a new frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But Can't Find My Way Home does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist. Illegal drugs changed the cultural landscape of America, and they continue to shape our country, with enormous consequences. This ambitious, fascinating book is the story of how that happened.".
• catalog contributor b13155255.
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description "But Can't Find My Way Home does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist. Illegal drugs changed the cultural landscape of America, and they continue to shape our country, with enormous consequences. This ambitious, fascinating book is the story of how that happened.".
• catalog description "Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American century transformed into the great stoned age. Martin Torgoff begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a new frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. ".
• catalog description "Fearless, immune, and ready for all -- Bop apocalypse -- Psychedelic spring -- Everybody must get stoned -- White light, white heat -- Next stop is Vietnam -- Find the cost of freedom -- Golden age of marijuana -- Out of the closets and into the streets -- Last dance -- Hangin' bangin' and slangin' -- Spiritus contra spiritum -- Nouveau psychedelia -- Just say know -- Temple of accumulated error.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-524) and index.".
• catalog description "What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. ".
• catalog extent "vii, 545 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Can't find my way home.".
• catalog identifier "0743230108 (hc)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Can't find my way home.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
• catalog relation "Can't find my way home.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "2004 I-200".
• catalog subject "306/.1 22".
• catalog subject "Drug abuse United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Drug abuse United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Drug and Narcotic Control United States Personal Narratives.".
• catalog subject "HV 5825 T682c 2004".
• catalog subject "HV5825 .T68 2004".
• catalog subject "Popular culture United States.".
• catalog subject "Social Problems United States Personal Narratives.".
• catalog subject "Street Drugs United States Personal Narratives.".
• catalog subject "Subculture United States.".
• catalog subject "Substance-Related Disorders United States Personal Narratives.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Fearless, immune, and ready for all -- Bop apocalypse -- Psychedelic spring -- Everybody must get stoned -- White light, white heat -- Next stop is Vietnam -- Find the cost of freedom -- Golden age of marijuana -- Out of the closets and into the streets -- Last dance -- Hangin' bangin' and slangin' -- Spiritus contra spiritum -- Nouveau psychedelia -- Just say know -- Temple of accumulated error.".
• catalog title "Can't find my way home : America in the great stoned age, 1945-2000 / Martin Torgoff.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".