DON LATTIN discusses and signs "The Harvard Psychellic Club"

Start: Thu, 04/08/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Thu, 04/08/2010 - 8:00pm

Lattin is a former reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Harvard Psychedelic Club is the true story of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith at Harvard in the early 1960s. Leary, Alpert, and Smith sought spiritual enlightenment through a controversial series of experiments with psychedelic drugs, but Weil was excluded due to his undergrad status, so he secretly plotted to get Alpert and Leary fired from the university. Providing us with an expansive study of the four figures that helped shape the 1960's, Lattin will show us how the visionaries changed American culture.

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Del Mar, California 92014-1945

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