Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1987

Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens  FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1987] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Dust jacket has some shelf wear; but looks super attractive; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. Book itself looks and reads beautifully. A few tiny spots to text block. Storming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories. His prodigiously researched narrative moves from Aldous Huxley's earnest attempts to "open the doors of perception" to Timothy Leary's surreal experiments at Millbrook; from the CIA's purchase of millions of doses to the thousands of flower children who turned on and burned out in Haight-Ashbury. Along the way, this brilliant, novelistic work of cultural history unites such figures as Allen Ginsb