White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg

While individual biographies of Ginsberg and Leary have been published, their explicit ties have never been explored (outside of FBI files). The combination of these two figures 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 countercultural movement.

Books about these two men carry their own built-in controversy and publicity. Even after their deaths, they are considered dangerously provocative figures to some, and inspirational figures to others. Combining their intertwined histories in a book that also probes a compelling historical period will no doubt strike chords with many journalists who will use their lives, and this book, as a chance to reflect on their legacy and as a bellwether for America.

WHS is appealing for media coverage in a number of areas: politics, drugs, social history, sexuality, psychology, literature, and even current events.

The strong response to the recent book The Harvard Psychedelic Club reveals a renewed interest in Timothy Leary's turbulent life. WHS goes a step beyond by looking at how Leary's Harvard experiments fomented an interest in psychedelics that swept across the country.

© 2010 City Lights Publishers (Ebook): 9780872865754

Release date

Ebook: November 23, 2010