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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 (Revised) Paperback - 2005
by Martin Torgoff
Torgoff examines how America's fascination with the new frontiers of inner space and consciousness gave birth to a mass culture of recreational drug use. Features interviews with eyewitnesses to the drug revolution, including Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, and many others.
Summary
From the narcotic allure of the bebop and Beat generations to the psychedelic 1960s, Vietnam, the cocaine-fueled disco era, the crack epidemic, and the ecstasy-induced rave culture, illegal drugs have profoundly shaped America's cultural landscape. In Can't Find My Way Home, journalist and filmmaker Martin Torgoff chronicles what a long strange trip it's been as the American Century became the Great Stoned Age.
Weaving together first-person accounts and historical background, Can't Find My Way Home is a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Torgoff tells the stories of those whose lives became synonymous with the drug culture, from Charlie Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John Belushi to ordinary people who felt their consciousness "expanded" or who plumbed the depths of addiction. He also examines the broader impact of drugs on society and politics, from the war on drugs to the recovery movement, and the continuing debate over drug policy. A vivid work of cultural history that neither demonizes nor romanticizes its subject, Can't Find My Way Home is a provocative and fascinating look at how drugs have entered the American mainstream.
Weaving together first-person accounts and historical background, Can't Find My Way Home is a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Torgoff tells the stories of those whose lives became synonymous with the drug culture, from Charlie Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John Belushi to ordinary people who felt their consciousness "expanded" or who plumbed the depths of addiction. He also examines the broader impact of drugs on society and politics, from the war on drugs to the recovery movement, and the continuing debate over drug policy. A vivid work of cultural history that neither demonizes nor romanticizes its subject, Can't Find My Way Home is a provocative and fascinating look at how drugs have entered the American mainstream.
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OUR STONED BROTHERHOOD came together in the season after Woodstock, the moonwalk, and the Manson murders.
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- Title Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 (Revised)
- Author Martin Torgoff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-05-09
- ISBN 9780743230117 / 0743230116
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.22 x 1.36 in (23.37 x 15.80 x 3.45 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.1
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"An exuberant chronicle of ecstatic inebriation, delusional utopianism, wretched excess and chastened nostalgia for lost highs."
-- The New York Times Book Review
-- The New York Times Book Review
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- New York Times, 06/12/2005, Page 36
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