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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Steven L. Davis, Bill Minutaglio
Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Penology & punishment, Prisons, Psychology, Experimental psychology, Political leaders & leadership
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John Murray
- Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781529328202 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 16, 2020 | 9781529328219 | RRP $15.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 16, 2020 | 9781529328226 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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John Murray
- Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781529328202 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 16, 2020 | 9781529328219 | RRP $15.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 16, 2020 | 9781529328226 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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John Murray
- Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781529328202 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 16, 2020 | 9781529328219 | RRP $15.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 16, 2020 | 9781529328226 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning DALLAS 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.
'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal
'A madcap chase... this is a well-written chronicle of 28 months when the world went slightly mad' Sunday Times
'A suitably head-spinning account of LSD High Priest Dr Timothy Leary' Mail on Sunday
On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius IQ studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, the High Priest of LSD, had been running a gleeful campaign for California governor against Ronald Reagan. Now, Leary is six months into a ten-year prison sentence for the crime of possessing two marijuana cigarettes.
Aided by the radical Weather Underground, Leary's escape from prison is the counterculture's union of "dope and dynamite," aimed at sparking a revolution and overthrowing the government. Inside the Oval Office, President Richard Nixon drinks his way through sleepless nights as he expands the war in Vietnam and plots to unleash the United States government against his ever-expanding list of domestic enemies. Antiwar demonstrators are massing by the tens of thousands; homemade bombs are exploding everywhere; Black Panther leaders are threatening to burn down the White House; and all the while Nixon obsesses over tracking down Timothy Leary, whom he has branded "the most dangerous man in America."
Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA is an American thriller that takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture.
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Praise for The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
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Fascinating...rigorously researched...[The Most Dangerous Man in America] offers the pleasures of the tick-tock genre. Much like Leary himself, the book is plenty of zany fun - The New York Times
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One of the decade's most audacious and exciting stories, told with page-turning panache - The Boston Globe
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...[A] rip-roaring tale of hallucinogenic drugs, revolutionary politics and an intercontinental standoff...Minutaglio and Davis have taken a largely forgotten chapter from the recent past and turned it into a vigorous page-turner - San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' decade - Wall Street Journal
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The Most Dangerous Man in America is a wild ride across time, space, and multiple cosmic planes during an era when America came close to losing -- or finding? -- its mind. Leary and Nixon: surely no other country on earth could have produced such a perfectly, surreally antithetical pair. Crack open this book and prepare to have your mind blown by the reality of this very strange tale - PEN/Hemingway and O. Henry Prize-winning author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
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A pitch-perfect, exhilarating work about one of the strangest chapters in the American experience, one so exciting that even the postscript rivets...A stroke of narrative genius - Booklist (Starred Review)
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A riveting international chase between a tenacious but paranoid cat and a wily but delusional mouse... Minutaglio and Davis are superb storytellers, and throughout the narrative, they nimbly move between their two converging subjects. Their account is expertly detailed and blessedly fat-free - Kirkus (Starred Review)
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The glory of [The Most Dangerous Man in America] is its fast-paced, rollicking narrative that brings the freakishness of the revolutionary 1970s to life. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis have pulled off a meticulous observation of their subjects with turns of phrases that pop with pleasure. I galloped through the book; could not put it down - New York Times bestselling author of The Train to Crystal City
Steven L. Davis
Steven L. Davis was born in 1963 and grew up in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of two books: Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond and J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind. Davis is a long-time curator at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos, which holds the literary papers of many writers. Davis has also edited several books for publication and he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
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