Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Title: Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Author: Benjamin Breen ISBN: 9781538722374 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1592943 Publisher Description: A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker's best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant 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. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In