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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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Author:
Benjamin Breen
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Date:
January 16, 2024
A revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley.
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Breen presents a tantalizing hypothetical, one that would have had an inestimable impact on culture, medicine and perhaps the whole of civilization had it come to pass: What if, in the mid-1950s, Margaret Mead had publicly endorsed psychedelics?.
Lively and engrossing.
Breen handles his complex and frequently bizarre material with skill and sobriety. He marshals a convincing mass of circumstantial evidence as well as documentary fragments that survived the destruction of MK-Ultra records..
An alternate history of psychedelic drugs before their adoption by the counterculture..
